Third Oklahoma student dies after truck hit cross-country runners
02/16/2020 11:50 am PST
via KFOR:
MOORE, Okla. (KFOR) -- Another Moore High School student has died following the hit and run crash earlier this month.
On Feb. 3, Yuridia Martinez, Joseph White, Kolby Crum, Shiloh Hutchison, Ashton Baza, and Rachel Freeman were hit when Max Townsend barreled through a group of cross-country runners in his pickup truck.
Rachel Freeman died on the scene and Yuridia Martinez died at the hospital. Now Kolby Crum has died in the hospital after being in a coma.
After hitting the students on February 3, Max Townsend was arrested about three blocks away with signs of impairment, according to police.
Max Townsend's 29-year-old son, Max Townsend Jr., died February 2 in a separate crash in Moore.
Townsend is being held in Norman, Oklahoma, on 13 charges, including two charges of manslaughter in the first degree.
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