A Vicksburg mother of three was killed and three other people were injured early Sunday when the SUV in which they were traveling at a high rate of speed flipped onto railroad tracks near Old Highway 27.

Latoshia Haggan, 31, 122 John Allen St., was killed in the wreck at about 3 a.m., said Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace.

The driver of the Dodge Durango, Albert Brisco Jr., 23, also of 122 John Allen; and two backseat passengers, Nicholas M. Smith, 18, 1717 Cherry St., and Jerome M. Massey, 21, 11149 Fisher Ferry Road, Haggan’s cousin, were taken to River Region Medical Center.

Brisco was taken to University Medical Center in Jackson Sunday morning where a hospital spokesman said he was in good condition this morning. Smith and Massey remained at River Region, where a spokesman said both were in good condition.

Pace said the wreck occurred after the SUV, traveling toward Interstate 20 on Indiana Avenue ran through a driver’s license checkpoint deputies had set up at Blossom Lane.

“He never slowed down,” Pace said. “The deputies were standing outside their cars with blue lights on, and Brisco just kept going,” Pace said.

A deputy jumped in his patrol car and followed, but spotted the vehicle only once, as it topped a hill on North Frontage Road near the Sun Koon restaurant on the opposite side of the highway, Pace said. The deputy was just approaching the interstate when he saw the Durango, he said.

“When the deputy got to North Frontage Road and Old Highway 27, he asked the driver of another car stopped at the intersection which way the vehicle turned, and the driver said the SUV never stopped,” Pace said. “He just kept going straight.”

The SUV had crossed through the intersection, drove through a parking lot and careened over a hill before landing upside down on Kansas City Southern Railway tracks.

Haggan was pronounced dead at the scene by Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey, who said an autopsy would be performed, probably today.

“The deputy never got close enough to call it a chase,” the sheriff said, “so the only thing we can charge Brisco with is a misdemeanor of failure to yield.”

Pace said he asked the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol to send in an accident reconstructionist to investigate the wreck.

“I didn’t want our office to investigate since it all seems to have started when my guys attempted to stop him,” he said. “We still don’t know why he ran.”

Pace said later Sunday a gun was found in the car, but no further information was available on it yet.

Chondra Haggan, Latoshia Haggan’s sister, and about 12 other family members were at the scene of the wreck early Sunday afternoon.

Through tears, Chondra Haggan said she was on the phone with her sister “the whole time” as the wreck occurred.

“She was trying to get him to stop, but I heard him say he was “going to outrun the cops,” Chondra Haggan said.

Latoshia Haggan had asked Brisco to let her drive when the foursome left a nightclub on Lee Road, her sister told her before the wreck, Chondra Haggan said.

She described her sister as “full of fun and creative.”

“We were like peas and carrots,” she said of their relationship.

Latoshia Haggan’s three children were with her mother when the wreck occurred, Chondra Haggan said. The children are Dearius Harris, 9, who was with the family at the scene Sunday afternoon; Devonta Harris, 8, and Ariell Haggan, 5.

A graduate of Vicksburg High School, Latoshia Haggan was employed at Woodlawn Day Care on Culkin Road, her sister said.

The fatal wreck was the second one in Vicksburg this year. None has been reported in Warren County.

Lakeview Funeral Home will have charge of arrangements, Chondra Haggan said.