The suspect in a auto crash that killed four people and wounded almost 50 at Oklahoma State University’s homecoming parade on Saturday faces four charges of second-degree murder, police said.
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Adacia Chambers, a 25-year-old resident of the college town, was arrested after the Saturday crash on a driving while under the influence charge, and Stillwater police said Sunday she was being held on four additional counts of second-degree murder.
Governor Mary Fallin met with media to shed light on the accident in Still water Saturday that killed four people.
The driver accused in the crash, Adacia Chambers, 25, is in police custody.
Four people were killed and dozens injured after a auto barreled into the crowd.
‘They’re going to paint her into a frightful person but this is not [her],’ he told the paper.
Once again, Oklahoma State University is reeling from a deadly sports-related catastrophe.
Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis said there was discussion about canceling the homecoming game against Kansas, but that it was played as scheduled.
Police have released the identities of three adults who were killed when witnesses say a woman drove her vehicle into spectators at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade. “She has been an excellent employee”, Mark Thompson said.
He also said she was taking “a cocktail of medications” to help her illness, but discontinued for reasons unclear and was not medicated at the time of the crash.
The lawyer said Chambers was unable to tell him what happened during the incident, and it seemed to him that she may have blacked out.
Tony Coleman, the attorney for Chambers, says his client was not intoxicated, and that he believes she has a mental illness.
“I asked that same question to her during my time with her and…I was not satisfied with the response, which is why her competency is of great concern for me right now”, Coleman said.
26 more people were injured, nine seriously.
A toddler, who was not identified, died later Saturday. ‘”People were flying 30 feet into the air like rag dolls”.
Prabhakar, originally of Mumbai, India, was a graduate business student at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, the school said, identifying her as Nikita Nakal.
CBS affiliate KOTV reports Stone was an Emeritus professor in the Department of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering.
It was not immediately clear whether Bonnie Jean Stone and Marvin Lyle Stone were related.
Mourners have created a makeshift memorial at the crash site, with balloons, flowers, toys and candles place to remember the dead. Someone left a handmade sign that said, “It’s always darkest before dawn”.
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Floyd Chambers, 47, her father, earlier told The Oklahoman his daughter lived with her boyfriend in Stillwater.
