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The social media creator who allegedly hit<\/a> and killed a pedestrian as she hosted a livestream while simultaneously driving through a Chicago suburb has been arrested, according to authorities.<\/p>\n Known best to her online followers as Tea Tyme, Tynesha McCarty-Wroten was arrested Tuesday for her role in the 3 November death of 59-year-old Darren Lucas, said Lt Paul Kehrli of the Zion, Illinois<\/a>, police department.<\/p>\n Local jail records show McCarty-Wroten, 43, faces felony charges of reckless homicide and aggravated use of a communications device resulting in death.<\/p>\n Lucas\u2019s son-in-law, Chris King, said Tuesday that the state attorney\u2019s office had informed his family of McCarty-Wroten\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n \u201cThe family and myself are glad to see the wheels of justice moving,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n Lucas was walking at an intersection in Zion, near his home town of Beach Park, when a motorist reportedly struck<\/a> him, leaving him unconscious. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital emergency room from blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n McCarty-Wroten remained at the scene of the crash to speak to investigators and wasn\u2019t immediately charged. But she ultimately drew the police\u2019s scrutiny after they became aware of a video that suggested Lucas had been hit by a driver livestreaming on a TikTok<\/a> account associated with Wroten at the time.<\/p>\n ??The video in question was a screen recording of a TikTok livestream. It showed user \u201cTea_Tyme_3\u201d speaking at her telephone before a loud thud prompted her to say: \u201cFuck, fuck, fuck \u2026 I just hit somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n Tea_Tyme_3 ended the livestream just as a child in the car asked what had happened. Someone else in the car, meanwhile, questioned whether the driver was OK.<\/p>\n That account was subsequently made private, and a biography section that said the user was from Zion was deleted.<\/p>\n McCarty-Wroten \u2013 who is linked to the Tea Tyme moniker in online profiles and Illinois state business records \u2013 later sparked a social media outcry when she hosted a livestream days after Lucas\u2019s death and solicited donations on the Cash App platform that she said were meant to support her taking \u201cmental leave\u201d from the web.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know I don\u2019t like asking y\u2019all for shit, but if y\u2019all \u2026 find it in y\u2019all\u2019s heart and y\u2019all wanna support, my CashApp is right there,\u201d she said, according to a recording of the plea made to a restricted TikTok audience.<\/p>\n Among numerous negative replies to McCarty-Wroten\u2019s plea was a TikTok comment reading: \u201cWow despicable!!! She has no remorse!!!\u201d Another read: \u201cCASH APP???? AFTER MOWING OVER SOMEBODY\u2026????\u201d<\/p>\n Besides being a TikTok personality, online profiles associated with Tea Tyme tout her as a musician and book publisher.<\/p>\n