Hearing Today for Pair Charged with Multiple Murders in Police Chase

A preliminary hearing date is scheduled Tuesday for Darrell Lee Williams and Brittany Michelle Washington. The two are charged with murder and other counts for a crash that occurred at the end of a Christmas Day police chase in Pasadena, killing a woman and her 11-year cousin.

The preliminary hearing is scheduled at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. J of the Pasadena Courthouse, 300 E. Walnut St.

Williams and Washington, a resident of Los Angeles, are each charged with two counts of murder stemming from the deaths of Tracey Ong Tan, 25, and Kendrick Ng of Daly City.

The defendants are also charged with three counts each of assault with a deadly weapon — an automobile — and Williams is additionally facing one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Williams, 21 and Washington, 19, a pair reputed gang members pleaded not guilty.

Williams reportedly drove the silver Dodge Durango that crashed into a van on Marengo Avenue next to the Foothill (210) Freeway.

About 8:15 p.m. on Christmas the silver Dodge Durango rolled a stop sign near Claremont Avenue and Marengo Avenue, igniting a vehicle chase with law enforcement.

They stopped the SUV, but it drove off. The vehicle chase lasted about 30 seconds, with the SUV smashing into a van turning onto a Foothill (210) Freeway ramp. Pasadena police said one of the four people originally in the SUV threw out a handgun, which was later recovered.

The occupants in the van — Tan and Ng – died at the scene. Three relatives were injured: Kenric Ng, 49, Irene Ng, 52, and a 16-year-old girl, all of San Francisco-adjacent Daly City. The dead woman and boy were cousins, police said.