Woman wanted after deadly crash inside the Downtown Tunnel

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Arrest warrants are out for the person held responsible for a head-on collision in the Downtown Tunnel that killed 43-year-old Shelby Riddick-Walker of Portsmouth.

The crash happened at 3:15 a.m. on December 30 in the westbound lanes of the Downtown Tunnel, on Interstate 264.

Police say Goodwin was driving in the wrong direction when she hit a vehicle driven by Riddick-Walker, known as Lexus. She was killed instantly, investigators said. Goodwin suffered minor injuries in the crash, police said.

Brendan Mulligan was a close friend of Lexus. “I was very traumatized,” he said. “She had literally just left work. She dropped off an employee who had a flat tire and was on her way home. She was killed 45 minutes after she left the bar.”

Mulligan has lots of questions for Virginia State Police on why Goodwin was not in custody from the start, since they thought it to be an alcohol-involved incident.

“I think it is about time,” Mulligan said. “If any of us had gotten pulled over or suspected of DUI and we killed someone, we would be in in jail. I don’t understand why they let her go, let alone if she killed somebody.”

Mulligan thinks police should have been tougher considering Goodwin was not only going the wrong way in the tunnel, alcohol was involved, and someone was killed.

“Once she is taken to the hospital, I would hope the police are standing there hoping they will ask her questions,” Mulligan said. “Someone has died. Someone has been killed. Why aren’t the police at the hospital?”

As for his friend, Mulligan said “she was probably the most genuine person I ever knew. She had a big heart,” and she was also there for the LGBTQ community.

“She was there to help people come out to their families or not to come out to their families,” Mulligan said, “but she was there to support them — a backbone, and [for] her not to be here is just devastating to the community.”