Woman charged months after crash that killed teacher, mother of 6

A pistillate has been charged with impaired driving 2 months aft a clang that killed a section archetypal people teacher.

Stephanie Church waived extradition Monday aft she was arrested connected a warrant and charged with impaired driving resulting successful decease and impaired driving that caused important bodily harm, according to tribunal documents.

Church is accused of running a halt sign May 23 adjacent East Bonanza Road and Fogg Street, smashing into Tricia Young’s Honda Civic.

Young, a 47-year-old parent of six, died astatine University Medical Center, constabulary said. Her lad Kaidence Young, 18, was injured successful the crash.

Las Vegas constabulary serviceman Misael Parra said Monday that officers conducted a humor gully the time of the crash, received the results the adjacent time and submitted the lawsuit to the territory attorney’s bureau connected May 27. The bureau did not record charges until Aug. 10.

“She should person been arrested the time of the (crash),” Young’s champion friend, Karri Donham, wrote successful a connection to the Review-Journal. “Maybe someday we each tin find closure for close present we conscionable privation her to beryllium held accountable and prosecuted to the afloat grade of the law!”

The territory attorney’s bureau did not reply to a petition for comment. Metro declined to accidental wherever Church was being extradited from.

In a connection to the Review-Journal, Dominic Young wrote: “My younger member Kaidence had to postgraduate precocious schoolhouse without my ma determination to usher and enactment him done his young big life. My small sister Jaeden started her archetypal time of precocious schoolhouse without my ma determination to assistance with homework, sports, oregon advice.”

Young was a grandma to 7 children, whom she utilized to babysit often, Dominic Young said. She had worked astatine Watson Elementary School successful North Las Vegas for astatine slightest 3 years, though she had worked successful the Clark County School District for astatine slightest 18 years.

Former students person told Young’s children however overmuch of an interaction she had connected them since her death, Dominic Young wrote.

“Since the car mishap my siblings and I person each had to turn up sooner than we should person to measurement up and presume the relation of genitor for each other,” helium wrote. “When we messiness up oregon autumn implicit determination is nary ‘mom’s house’ to spell to oregon idiosyncratic to telephone to inquire for help.”

Dominic Young and Donham expressed their concerns that Church was suspected of impaired driving and walked escaped for much than 2 months aft the crash.

“The harm done to our household is thing that tin not beryllium fixed,” Dominic Young wrote. “We are relying connected the strategy present to springiness justness to Tricia’s family, friends, students and truthful overmuch more.”

Contact Sabrina Schnur astatine sschnur@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0278. Follow @sabrina_schnur connected Twitter.