Hajsun Jermale Hudson Jr was an 18-year-old student at Bessemer High School from Lipscomb, Alabama. Known to family as poo man, he had celebrated a birthday a few weeks before a Friday midday crash that proved fatal.

Hudson was one of three passengers in a car driven by a 24-year-old man when the Lipscomb Police Department initiated a pursuit. The chase ended at 6th Avenue North and 5th Avenue North in a crash the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating. The vehicle was reported to be traveling at a high rate of speed, estimated over 100 miles per hour, and Hudson died of his injuries. His mother, Diamond Broaden, questioned why the driver fled from police and why the car was traveling so fast instead of pulling over.

If anyone witnessed the pursuit or the collision, or has information about what happened that day, please share what is known.