Police looking for suicide notes at the Stillwater home of the driver blamed for the homecoming parade crash at Oklahoma State University have seized a handwritten letter and three handwritten notes from the woman’s Bible.
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Police say that Chambers drove through a red light, around a police barricade and over a police motorcycle into the crowd of people watching the homecoming parade.
In all, authorities say four people were killed and 46 others were injured in the crash. The adults were identified as Nikita Nakal, a 23-year-old MBA student from India at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, and a married couple, Bonnie Jean Stone and Marvin Lyle Stone, both 65, of Stillwater.
The Associated Press reports that Adacia Chambers, 25, was formally charged on Tuesday with four counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of felony assault. The day after the crash, Coleman told reporters he believed Chambers to be mentally ill.
Austin Thomas applied Wednesday for a competency hearing, and her office requested the court to order Chambers to undergo a competency evaluation by the Department of Mental Health and Abuse Service.
Mr Coleman said when he told Chambers about the deaths, “her face was blank”. She’s been held in the Payne County Jail on $1 million bond.
Capt Gibbs said Chambers stopped talking to investigators shortly after her arrest and that it was still not known what may have prompted her to drive into the crowd. He said her “emotional state ranged from uncontrollable sobbing to inappropriate, hysterical laughter”.
He wrote that Chambers told him the year was 2016, but that she was aware she was in a detention center.
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At one point, Chambers denied having a mental illness and claimed she “had no need for psychiatric treatment”. I wanted to keep going and not give up … “I think God had called me back because he was alone, but he wasn’t alone and he realized it. So now we can be together”. When the psychologist asked about the reason she sought such treatment, she said, “Because I felt something was wrong”.
