Murfreesboro, TN - The driver in the fatal wrong-way DUI collision that killed a Murfreesboro man on S. Church Street Thursday (11/7/2024) night charged with vehicular homicide is 23-year-old Lora Allison Tenpenny was also charged with driving the wrong-way in a fatal DUI crash. 

Killed in that crash was 28-year-old Andre Knox of Murfreesboro.

The crash happened when Tenpenny was driving a 2004 Jeep Wrangler southbound in the northbound lane of S. Church Street and crashed head-on with a BMW. The Jeep flipped onto its side.  28-year-old  was driving the BMW and was pronounced deceased at the hospitaol.

An off-duty Williamson County deputy called 911 to report a possible intoxicated driver and witnessed the deadly crash.  Off-duty Murfreesboro Fire Rescue Department Safety Officer/Paramedic Captain Karl Daigle stopped after seeing the wreckage. Daigle and the deputy helped pulled the victim from the BMW and started CPR. MFRD firefighters and Rutherford County Emergency Medical Services personnel arrived and took over medical care.

Tenpenny was released from the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center about an hour and half after posting a $72,000 bond.  She has a hearing in Rutherford County General Sessions Court on Nov. 19, 2024.