INDIANAPOLIS — Before a horrific crash that injured six children and their mother, the 27-year-old man accused of causing it recently walked out of federal prison.
The Indianapolis man was sentenced to five years and one day at a federal correctional facility in Milan, Michigan, after pleading guilty in 2021 to distributing marijuana and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
Now he stands accused of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
On Tuesday, July 23, just after 3:30 p.m. surveillance video from used tire shop, Tons of Tires, captured a speeding Dodge Charger SRT at the intersection of East New York Street and North State Avenue.
It ran through a red light before crashing into a Ford Explorer carrying a mother and her six children.
The Bureau of Prisons would not provide the date he was released, but online courts listed he was no longer in the system’s custody on July 23, 2024, the day of the crash.
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