The dashcam footage from 2024 is haunting: a 61-year-old Black woman, confused and pleading for her life, while an 81-year-old white man points a revolver at her, convinced she is part of a scamming ring who had just demanded thousands from him and threatened his life in Ohio.
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We previously told you about Lo-Letha Toland-Hall; a beloved mother, friend and avid baker who often mailed her only child in South Carolina surprise pastry deliveries. She was killed by William Brock, an 81-year-old white man on March 25, 2024.
Toland-Hall, who drove for Uber after she retired to occupy her time, received a request in the app to pick up a package from Brock’s home in South Charleston— between Columbus and Dayton. She was drawn into a lie without realizing it, unaware she had been sent there by scammers.
Before she arrived to Brock’s home, an unnamed man had told Brock over the phone he needed to pay $12,000 to get his nephew out of jail, according to a police report. When Brock realized it was a ruse, the scammer began “threatening to kill him, threatening to kill everyone in his family, and saying the black car is now in your driveway, we have drones above your property watching,” ordering him to give the ransom to the driver, CBS News reported at the time.
That driver was Toland-Hall.
That same caller, or an accomplice, had used the Uber app to lure Toland-Hall to Brock’s residence. Upon her arrival, Brock held Toland-Hall at gunpoint, demanded to know the identities of the scammers who had called him and took her phone while preventing her from leaving.
Despite her attempts to explain who she was and trying to get back into her car, Brock shot her before a “subsequent scuffle at the door of Ms. Hall’s vehicle.” Toland-Hall was shot six times. She later died at a Dayton hospital during surgery.
Brock pleaded not guilty to murder charges, but a Clark County jury convicted him of felonious assault, kidnapping and murder in January, according to CNN. Brock, now 83, was sentenced last week to 21 years to life in prison.
“Just hearing the pleading and the screams… I know my mom was scared,” Toland-Hall’s son Mario Hall said, referring to the dashcam video from his mother’s car that captured her final moments. “In the video, she’s trying to explain everything, what’s going on. I think about her last moments. I know she’s probably thinking of me. I know that she’s possibly thinking, ‘How did I get to this?’ It’s just hard to really put into words.”
The scammers who organized the scheme are still at large.
“Both families have lost loved ones because of this,” Clark County Prosecutor Daniel Driscoll said, via the Springfield News-Sun. “There are no winners here.”
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