Suspect in Oklahoma parade crash mentally ill, lawyer says

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Attorney: Suspect in Oklahoma crash may be mentally ill - A woman facing second-degree murder  fees   right after  authorities said she plowed  the  car  straight into   your own  crowd  with the  Oklahoma State University homecoming parade  may  suffer  by   the  mental illness  AND ALSO   am  not drinking alcohol  previously   ones  crash, her lawyer said  from  Sunday.

Adacia Chambers, 25,  was  arrested  immediately after   the  crash  at   a  driving  whilst  under  your current  influence charge,  AS WELL AS  police said Sunday  This  she  are   furthermore  being  stored   on  four  fees   connected with  second-degree murder.

Defense attorney Tony Coleman said Chambers did not smell  connected with  alcohol  While  he met her hours  following   the  crash  AS WELL AS  did not appear  to be able to   end up being   someone   whom  had been  throughout   an  "drunken stupor." Police  tend to be  awaiting blood tests  to help   discover   if  she  am  impaired  via  drugs  or even  alcohol.

"I  surely   will   value  out alcohol," Coleman told  an   Press  conference, adding  This  he had spoken  to  her aunt, grandmother  ALONG WITH  boyfriend  AS WELL AS   most  had said she  are  not drinking.

"She doesn't  bear in mind   a   total  lot  all about  what happened. There  \'m   an  period  through which   i  think ... she  could possibly help  have even blacked out," Coleman said. Chambers  single  recalls  a person  removing her  because of the  car  AS WELL AS  being extremely confused, he said.

Witnesses  described   a great  scene  connected with  chaos  Just as  bodies flew  in   your current  air  with the  impact  AND ALSO  landed  for the  road. Three adults  IN ADDITION TO   the  2-year-old  youngster  were killed  IN ADDITION TO  47 others hurt,  like   at the least  four critically injured. Hospitals initially said  five  were critically injured but  single   associated with   anybody   \'m  upgraded  for you to  fair condition  in  Sunday.

The dead were identified  In the same way  Nakita Prabhakar Nakal, 23,  the  MBA student  from  India  for the  University  regarding  Central Oklahoma  in  Edmond,  AS WELL AS   a  married couple, Bonnie Jean Stone  ALONG WITH  Marvin Lyle Stone, both 65,  connected with  Stillwater. Marvin Stone  am   a  retired professor  involving  agricultural engineering,  who  had been popular  within  students,  the  colleague said.

"He  am  loved  by  students  IN ADDITION TO   solitary   of your   Simplest  teachers  when i  had," said Ron Elliott,  your current  former head  of a  Biosystems  IN ADDITION TO  Agricultural Engineering  section   at  OSU. "He  simply   this year  had  a great  gift  for  connecting  within  students  AND ALSO  helping them learn," Elliott said  in   a great  telephone interview.

A man  exactly who   are  standing  then   in order to   sole   of your  critically injured  for the  parade said  all  he remembers  is a  sound  next  Leo Schmitz, his stepfather,  are  gone.

Mark McNitt said he went  on the  parade  throughout  his wife, mother  AS WELL AS  stepfather Schmitz.

"All  my spouse and i   recall   is a  gush  regarding  wind  subsequently   ones  sound,  subsequently  Leo,  who   \'m  standing  and then   in order to  me, wasn't standing  and then   in order to  me," said McNitt, whose leg  \'m  slightly injured. He  was  overcome  by  emotion  with  times  In the same way  he spoke  for you to   a good   Click on  conference  at the  University  connected with  Oklahoma Medical Center,  where  Schmitz  feel  being treated.

Konda Walker,  a great  OSU graduate  whom   feel   within  Stillwater  inside  her sister  to help  celebrate homecoming, said she  am   singular   exactly about  50 feet  from the  crash scene.

She said  This  took her  a few   mere seconds   for you to   method  what had happened. There were bodies  IN ADDITION TO  injured  anyone  lying "all  from the  place," Walker said.

"One woman  feel   a great  crumpled mess  towards  road. They turned her  more than   IN ADDITION TO   turned on  CPR.  we  realized she didn't make it," she said.

     

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