This incident happened around my neighborhood and it is the big news around here.
Long story, short version.
On Easter Sunday, five people were killed in a hit and run, a family of four in one car and a 6 year-old in another. The mother of the 6 year-old suffers from two broken legs and various other injuries.
Kayla Lemons, Delisia and Robert Carter at their wedding last summer
6 week-old Ethan Carter
For ten days, police looked for a champagne colored BMW that would have been badly damaged on the driver's side driven by a female.
Last Monday, the SWAT team followed an anonymous tip and surrounded a house of a young woman and her parents. No one was home, but police staked out the residence and after three hours, an SUV entered the subdivision and quickly made a U-turn.
6 year-old Morgan Johnson
Tracie Johnson
Police caught up with the vehicle and a young woman, her mother and her grandmother are taken away by police unhandcuffed.
A champagne colored BMW with no visible damage was towed away from the garage by the police.
Aimee Michael
After a night of questioning, the mother and grandmother were released and 22 year-old graduate of Pittsburgh University, Aimee Michael were charged with 5 counts of vehicular homicide, one count of failure to maintain lanes, one count of serious injury by vehicle, hit and run.
Michael's BMW involved in the accident
Turned out the badly damaged BMW that everyone was looking for was holed up in the family's garage and was repaired by someone whom the police are still looking for. Now Michael told detectives that she left the scene, put the car in the garage and told her mother and grandmother about the incident two days later. Since the police found that the garage was not used as a usual entrance or exit of the home, they assumed the mothers did not know and projected that they won't be charged. TURNS OUT today, Aimee Michael's mother, an elementary school teacher in this area, after arranging for the damage on the BMW to be repaired, switched the tags from the 1998 BMW involved in the accident to that of an 1991 BMW registered to her.
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**deep breath**
Okay. During the days after the accident, I had always assumed that the person who caused the accident would not turn in themselves on their own volition because of the heavy news coverage and the knowledge that they caused the deaths of five people.
At the very least, I thought that the driver would confide in someone who would encourage the person to turn themselves in, but it took an anonymous tipster ten days after the accident and eight days after Michael confessed to her family to shed some light this case. During the first days, I figured that the person was just incredibly scared and before all the news came out about fixing the car and switching the tags, I kind of felt sorry for Aimee Michael. Now I think that she (and her family) ain't shit.
Now I know you can't really give an definite answer for such a thing unless you're in the midst of it, but would you go to such great lengths to help a loved one cover up such a crime?
