Chambers’ attorney, Tony Coleman, held a news conference in an attempt to shed light on the incident.
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“I still don’t believe it. I can’t wrap my brain around this”.
Coleman says there were warning signs from her behavior before the crash, including an inability to sleep. “I’m not a psychologist or psychiatrist, but I can tell you she’s suffering from mental illness”, Coleman said.
Four people were killed and dozens injured after a vehicle barreled into the crowd.
“The only thing I can relate it to is a few type of bombing”, McNitt told Reuters. “The screaming… and a lot of screaming”. Police were awaiting results of a blood test administered to Chambers after the crash.
Police said Chambers lives in Stillwater, but did not appear to be an OSU student.
“There’s a very very dark area there that’s hard for her to recall”, her lawyer said.
Emergency personnel gather a vehicle crashed into a crowd of spectators during the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, causing multiple injuries, on Saturday, October 24, 2015 in Stillwater, Oka. “We treat these like we would any homicide investigation”, he said. Five were in critical condition Sunday.
The homecoming game went on as scheduled, with players taking a knee in prayer before kickoff and then beating Kansas 58-10 after the administration made a decision to go on with the game.
The boy “died of injuries sustained in the collision” at hospital, the Stillwater Police Department said in a statement.
That guardian angel was one of the people who was killed in the crash, Franklin told KJRH. But then panic ensued.
“People were flying 30 feet (10 meters) into the air like rag dolls”, the newspaper quoted Konda Walker as saying. I also witnessed remarkable leadership from Oklahoma State University and the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association.
He said Chambers told him she did not remember much of the crash, telling him it was a “dark period”.
Student Kailey Carter told CNN affiliate KJRH she was among those struck and described being thrown over baby strollers at the scene.
Police and witnesses say the Hyundai sedan driven by 25-year-old Adacia Chambers crashed into an unoccupied police motorcycle before hitting the crowd.
The three adults who were killed have been named as 23-year-old Nakita Prabhakar from Edmond, and Bonnie Jean Stone and Marvin Lyle Stone, both aged 65 and from Stillwater. They were all pronounced dead at the scene. “He was off to the side”, said Mark McNitt, who was standing beside his stepfather, Leo Schmitz, who was injured in the crash.
Nash Lucas was identified as one of the victims by his family.
“Oklahoma State University is saddened by the tragic parade incident earlier this morning”, the school said on its Twitter account. A police spokesman did not immediately return a phone call seeking to explain the discrepancy.
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Anthea Lewis had tears in her eyes on Sunday as she placed a child’s hat with an Oklahoma State University logo at the base of a makeshift memorial where a auto crashed into a homecoming parade crowd a day earlier. He retired in 2006 and founded the Marvin and Bonnie Stone Endowed Scholarship Fund with his wife the following year.
