Car crash that killed 4 at Illinois after-school program doesn’t appear to have been targeted attack, police say
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A car’s crash into an after-school program building in central Illinois this week – a wreck that killed four people ages 7 to 18 and injured six other children – does not appear to have been a targeted attack, Illinois State Police said Tuesday.
A car’s crash into an after-school program building in central Illinois this week – a wreck that killed four people ages 7 to 18 and injured six other children – does not appear to have been a targeted attack, Illinois State Police said Tuesday. Still, the cause of Monday afternoon’s crash into the YNOT after-school program in Chatham is under investigation, state police said as the community mourns and awaits answers about what led up to it. Four people were killed in the crash: two 7-year-olds, an 8-year-old and an 18-year-old, police said. Six other children were taken to area hospitals, one of whom was in critical condition Tuesday morning. All four killed were “female students,” the Sangamon County coroner’s office said in a news release. The crash occurred when a vehicle left a road “for unknown reasons,” traveled through a field and slammed into a side of the program’s building around 3:20 p.m. CT Monday – striking several people – before exiting the other side, police said in a Tuesday morning news release. The driver – the vehicle’s sole occupant, Marianne Akers, 44, of Chatham – was not injured, but was taken to a hospital for evaluation, state police said. “Akers is not in custody at this time as the cause of the crash remains under investigation,” state police said in a Tuesday release. CNN’s calls to a phone believed to be associated with Akers were not immediately returned.
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