Car goes into crowd, killing four and injuring forty four

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**d-usa**

Update:

http://newsok.com/police-seize-letter-notes-from-bible-of-driver-who-crashed-into-osu-parade/article/5457799

STILLWATER — Police looking for suicide notes at the Stillwater home of the driver blamed for the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade crash seized a handwritten letter and three handwritten notes from her Bible.

Police told a judge in a request for the search that Adacia Avery Chambers, 25, was overheard saying just before the incident that she was "going home forever."

Police earlier had reported Chambers admitted she was suicidal at the time of the incident.

Stillwater police Sgt. Jeff Dillon stated in the request that "Ms. Chambers boyfriend, Jesse Gaylord, stated she had been treated in the past by a mental health professional after making a suicide threat."

The woman's attorney has also stated she has a history of mental illness.

Police did not reveal in the list of items seized what the handwritten letter and notes stated. Police also seized a laptop, a hard drive, a tablet and an Xbox One controller.

Police searched the home Oct. 24, the day of the crash that killed four parade spectators and injured dozens. Chambers is awaiting charges in the Payne County jail

**Ouze**

Another update: the driver was not drunk.

A woman accused of killing four people and injuring dozens more at Oklahoma State University's Oct. 24 homecoming parade had a blood alcohol content below the minimum level to be considered legally intoxicated, court papers showed.

According to a brief filed on Thursday with the Payne County District Court by defense attorney Tony Coleman, a blood draw conducted on the day of the accident showed that 25-year-old Adacia Chambers had a blood alcohol content of 0.01 percent.

Due to a gag order, officials with the police department in Stillwater, Oklahoma, said on Friday they could not comment specifically on the case or the accuracy of the brief's contents.

In Oklahoma, the minimum blood alcohol content to be considered under the influence is 0.08 percent for those 21 and older.

Chambers' attorney, Coleman, had filed the brief in support of a motion requesting court funds to finance bringing in an expert witness in psychology and accident reconstruction.

The suspect's father, Floyd Chambers, and her attorney have said she has a history of mental illness and sought treatment twice in recent years.

Facing four counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of assault and battery, Chambers is due back in court on Dec. 10 and is currently being held in lieu of $1 million bond.

**Kanluwen**

Ehhh. Second-degree murder in light of no alcohol seems a bit light.

**LordofHats**

Depends on severity of potential mental illness and culpability if any for neglecting treatment (if we even do that, I don't know XD)

**Kanluwen**

LordofHats wrote:
Depends on severity of potential mental illness and culpability if any for neglecting treatment (if we even do that, I don't know XD)

Severity of mental illness would affect her ability to be found competent enough for trial, not necessarily will it affect sentencing. Neglecting treatment is something that isn't really considered either.

**Dreadclaw69**

Ouze wrote:
Another update: the driver was not drunk.

A woman accused of killing four people and injuring dozens more at Oklahoma State University's Oct. 24 homecoming parade had a blood alcohol content below the minimum level to be considered legally intoxicated, court papers showed.

According to a brief filed on Thursday with the Payne County District Court by defense attorney Tony Coleman, a blood draw conducted on the day of the accident showed that 25-year-old Adacia Chambers had a blood alcohol content of 0.01 percent.

Due to a gag order, officials with the police department in Stillwater, Oklahoma, said on Friday they could not comment specifically on the case or the accuracy of the brief's contents.

In Oklahoma, the minimum blood alcohol content to be considered under the influence is 0.08 percent for those 21 and older.

Chambers' attorney, Coleman, had filed the brief in support of a motion requesting court funds to finance bringing in an expert witness in psychology and accident reconstruction.

The suspect's father, Floyd Chambers, and her attorney have said she has a history of mental illness and sought treatment twice in recent years.

Facing four counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of assault and battery, Chambers is due back in court on Dec. 10 and is currently being held in lieu of $1 million bond.

This could get very interesting when it gets to court (assuming the accused does not plead out)

**Relapse**

Kanluwen wrote:
LordofHats wrote:
Depends on severity of potential mental illness and culpability if any for neglecting treatment (if we even do that, I don't know XD)

Severity of mental illness would affect her ability to be found competent enough for trial, not necessarily will it affect sentencing. Neglecting treatment is something that isn't really considered either.

Definitely the courts should give the woman treatment. Sticking her away in prison without any might as well be a death sentence, so she shouldn't go there if she is found lacking mental faculties.