Suspect to face DUI, other charges in Nye County wreck that killed 3

An Arizona antheral has been bound implicit for proceedings successful Nye County connected DUI and reckless driving charges successful transportation with a deadly March clang successful agrarian Nevada.

Nye County District Attorney Chris Arabia said Tyler Kennedy, 33, of Tolleson, was bound implicit this week to District Court successful Tonopah connected 10 felonies pursuing a two-day preliminary proceeding successful Beatty Justice Court. The charges see 5 counts each of driving nether the power and reckless driving, each causing decease oregon important injury.

The Nevada Highway Patrol said Kennedy was down the wheel of a pickup that crossed into oncoming traffic, past slammed head-on into an Idaho family’s athletics inferior conveyance March 27 connected U.S. Highway 95 betwixt Beatty and Goldfield. The wreck killed Michael Durmeier, 39; his fiancee, Lauren Starcevich, 38; and Durmeier’s 12-year-old daughter, Georgia — each of Victor, Idaho. Two different children successful the SUV were earnestly injured.

The household was traveling to Las Vegas, past to the Grand Canyon for a vacation.

Arabia’s bureau said successful a property merchandise Thursday that Kennedy is charged with driving nether the power “of methamphetamine and/or fentanyl.” A Nevada Highway Patrol apprehension study obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal besides indicates witnesses told investigators they saw Kennedy’s pickup speeding and passing vehicles connected the enarthrosis of the road anterior to the crash.

Kennedy volition beryllium arraigned Oct. 19 successful beforehand of District Judge Robert Lane.

“This was an important measurement toward getting immoderate measurement of justness for radical who mislaid truthful much,” Arabia said.

Kennedy’s defence lawyer could not instantly beryllium reached for remark connected Thursday. Kennedy told troopers aft the clang that helium saw an carnal successful the roadway and swerved to debar it, causing the crash.

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