This is sad. (news article)
Kids are absolutely crazy. Quote: Teen kills woman during suicide attempt By DOUG GROSS, Associated Press Writer 20 minutes ago ATLANTA - A lovesick 16-year-old girl crashed her car into an oncoming vehicle in a suicide attempt, counting down the moments before impact in text messages sent to the female classmate who spurned her, authorities say. The girl survived; a woman in the other car was killed. The teenager, Louise Egan Brunstad, was charged Thursday with murder in the Oct. 4 wreck. "There was what might be described as a countdown to the actual event — 10, 9, 8 ... then the crash," District Attorney Paul Howard said. Howard said it was unclear whether the classmate the messages were intended for responded to them or even read them, either as they were sent or afterward. Authorities said Brunstad rammed her family's Mercedes-Benz head-on into a smaller car driven by 30-year-old Nancy Salado-Mayo, a mother of three. Salado-Mayo was killed, and her 6-year-old daughter Lesly, who was in a child safety seat, suffered broken ribs and other injuries. Brunstad, who was [ONLY] treated for an ankle injury, had told friends she planned to kill herself after another female student at Holy Innocents Episcopal School refused to have sex with her, Howard said. Witnesses told police the girl never slowed as she crossed over a turning lane and into oncoming traffic on busy Roswell Road in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood on Oct. 4. "She was traveling at a high rate of speed," Howard said. "This is an intentional action." Prosecutors said they intend to try her as an adult. If convicted, she faces an automatic life sentence. The girl's attorney, Drew Findling, declined to discuss the allegations but expressed the family's sadness over the accident. "This young lady and her parents are devastated by this horrible accident and by the death of Mrs. Salado-Mayo and the injuries of her daughter," Findling said. "They are praying for the quick and healthy recovery of her daughter and for the well-being of her husband and other children." After a memorial service in Atlanta, Salado-Mayo's body was returned to her native Mexico for burial. Her husband, Mario Bibiano, a steelworker, was unable to attend because he remained by his daughter's bedside at an Atlanta hospital. Brunstad was on crutches in court Thursday for a brief hearing. Her lawyer said she was released on bail Friday. Howard said the terms of her bail require her to enter a mental health facility and wear an electronic monitor around her ankle to prevent her from running away. |
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| Why not run into a wall or something - why did she have to
involve another human life? This girl doesn't deserve to live. Horribly sad for the dead womans family. Shellie |
| That is so, so sad. For everyone. Why couldn't someone have gotten that girl some help before she decided to try to take her life, and ended up taking someone else's instead? Such a shame. |
What's weird to me is this chick wanted to commit suicide, but I think to survive the accident the way she did... she had to be wearing a seatbelt.  |
| Most of them time suicide attempts are cries for help... That is so tragic. It is so sad that it had to come to that. |
in this situation you ask your self what happend with old times  |
Joahaeyo wrote: I think to survive the accident the way she did... she had to be wearing a seatbelt. Maybe not, it's a heavy car, designed to protect the occupant by redirecting energy around the passenger compartment and probably had multiple airbags....
Her broken foot likely means she was either standing on the brake or standing on the gas...  |
| How horrible! |
| That is so sad.
The teenage years can be so difficult for some. It is such a shame she felt she had to do what she did and took that womans life. My heart goes out to both families. |
| What unbearable sorrow she has thrown the young mother's family into. And unfortunately, she sounds like the kind that in a few years' time, this will be no more than an afterthought to her. How tragic. I hope the husband sues. |
| She tried to kill herself driving a Mercedes?? Those cars are built to withstand major impacts........think German Autobahn and 120 mph.
Obviously everything about her?? Her Mercedes, her girlfriend, her suicide. The other day in the store a child was doing the "I want..." routine. Finally the mother stopped and said, "Jason, now is the time you learn, what you want and what you get are different. You don't get everything you want. You are lucky if you get what you need." The look on the boy's face was priceless and he contemplated this new information. One wonders if he changed his tactics, "Mommy, I NEED this." |
SheepieBoss wrote: She tried to kill herself driving a Mercedes?? Those cars are built to withstand major impacts........think German Autobahn and 120 mph.
Lol. That was my first reaction, too. Find yourself a nice Ford Festiva if you're really serious about killing yourself. The Germans build things to survive. |
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