As previously reported on 9-27-07 … Darius Moore, 17, of Gary Indiana, was driving while intoxicated on the night of September 15, 2007 when, he claims, one of his tires blew out and he crashed his car.
Today, Oct 17, 2007, Gary Indiana police spokesman report they will ask prosecutors to press unspecified charges against the Darius Moore in last month's car crash that killed two 18-year-old passengers in Gary, Indiana.
Police who responded to the crash failed to find the victims' bodies. According to Moore, they never searched for them. The father of one of the victims found them himself when he visited the site hours later.
Moore said he and the other crash survivor, DeAndre Anderson, begged police to search for their friends who were missing after the crash. Police radio dispatch tapes released last month revealed officers discussed the possibility that Smith and Green, the two missing teens, might be at the scene.
The police obviously did not search or did such a half-assed job that they should be, at the very least, embarrassed for not finding them.
A blood alcohol test, taken at the scene, shows that Darius Moore and the one surviving passenger had alcohol in their bloodstream which only proves they had been drinking. One of the two registered .09 and the other registered .05. because of their ages the results could not be publicly attached to which one was over the state imposed limit of .08.
Moore denies that anyone in the car had been drinking before the accident. So I guess the test lied? Maybe Moore is attempting to indicate that the police faked this test and are lying about the results. Since police have been known to lie, just as every other human has, it is easy enough to believe, but I don’t think you can fake the results of a blood alcohol test. Darius Moore is evoking the typical behavior of someone who has been caught doing something illegal, putting the blame off onto someone else.
His mother is enabling him by claiming the accident was not his fault. It is no one’s fault but his. He was drinking, underage, and he was driving that vehicle. Wake up, both of you. Face reality. Stop taking the act of drinking and driving so lightly.
Ignoring the fact that he was drinking and driving is only perpetuating the idea that it is okay to do it. he cannot be made to look noble by lying against the results of a blood alcohol test. He needs to answer for his total disregard for safety by drinking, driving, speeding, and allowing his passengers to ride without their safety belts attached. These issues are nothing to take lightly.
He needs to be punished. Nothing else he has heard about drinking and driving has gotten through to him. We have all been told for years about wearing safety belts. Now that he is responsible for a car accident that destroyed four families lives is not the time to fantasize that it was not his fault.
Take responsibility for your actions!!
Darius’s mother, Carmelita Evans said she wasn't surprised police were recommending charges against her son. "I figured the police would try to go after him in light of the lawsuits that are coming at them," she said. "Because the police are going down, I figured they would try to take my son with them."
I’m not surprised the police are going after him either. They should have arrested him on the night of the accident, on two charges at the very least. One, driving while intoxicated, two, drinking under the legal age. If police had actually followed through with their accident scene investigation heeding the possibility of others being involved and searched for the other two teens then those teens would either be alive or the police could charge the driver with vehicular homicide, too. They are not arresting him out of retaliation as she suggests, that is ludicrous.
Facing charges, Evans said, might put her son "over the edge -- that he could be liable for his friends' deaths. He's not sleeping, he's not eating properly. I hope this doesn't cause him to do something. I'm trying to seek counseling for him, but I'm a single mother and I don't have a lot of money."
The reason he is not sleeping or eating properly is due to a guilty conscience because he knows he is responsible for those boys deaths. He alone got behind the wheel and he alone was driving when that car went off the road. Again, face reality and make him suffer the consequences just as any person who drinks and drives should face the consequences.
It is unforgivable for police to ever leave a body behind for someone else to find, let alone a parent. Even though the police were given the possibility that the two missing teens were not in the car at the time of the accident is not a good enough reason not to search because there was indeed the possibility they were in the car.
It is equally unforgivable to allow drunken drivers to go unpunished. It sends the wrong message and we have seen it far too many times.
The family of one of the deceased teens is having an independent autopsy done, more for their own peace of mind, to see if the county coroner lied about their deaths being instantaneous. I understand why the family is doing this. The police are not above lying to protect themselves, anyone who thinks they would not lie is simply naïve and haven’t been paying attention. There are numerous cases where police have lied to protect themselves and their lies are backed up by every policeman and coroner in the country.
Drinking and driving is an intolerable activity that needs to be punished severely.
Why isn’t this country taking this responsibility more seriously?
1 comment:
Right on. I've been watching this case (and CNN's biased reporting on it) for several months as well.
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