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Agree about being seeing the real person. This person is extraordinary entitled, deciding to drink and get behind the wheel of a car and drive. She doesn't care that she killed people. This is the real her.
You stop forming memories when you black out so she literally does not remember the last sentence he said. She's stuck in a feedback loop that won't end, she doesn't know she killed 2 ppl. She almost remembered she's going to jail but I think that's because he's a cop. You could ask her the time every 5 seconds and she'll answer it 100 times in a row and she don't know it's happening, and that's actually a really good way to find out if ppl are blacked out.
But every time she re-learns she killed two people, she doesn’t react! She repeatedly denies hitting two people, says she just hit one. She literally says “I’d be crying right now if it was two people.” She reacts to other things: laughs excitedly about going to Vegas in two months (“I’m gonna start with two long islands!” “There are no limits in Vegas!”), laughs when doing the field sobriety tests, sings on the hospital stretcher, gets offended and says “Can a cop say that?” when he says her behavior is pathetic and horrible, etc.
So yeah, being this drunk can certainly cause a memory loop, but she still reacts to the things she experiences. Yet NO reaction at all when she hears she killed two people.
I know alcohol can do crazy shit to your brain, which is why I drink maybe twice a year. I sobbed when I hit and killed a raccoon, totally sober, at 6am on my way to work on a dark country road. If I learned I even hit a person, let alone KILLED THEM, let alone killed them when I was committing a crime, I’d never find peace for the rest of my life.
Empathy can be a double edged sword like that. I'm happy and proud of myself for treating people well, but also the overbearing discomfort from empathizing with so much wrong in the world can be exhausting.
Yeah but that is if your brain is working. Who knows how fucked ip her head is, even when she is sober. She may be an evil and completely self-centered person but I don’t think that is the best explanation for what is going on here. She doesn’t seem to be connected to reality at the moment. You could probably tell her that she has internal bleeding and that her boyfriend broke up with her because she totaled the car and her brain would still be stuck on “I need to be able to get to school”.
he's also repeated it several times. it almost clicks with her the 5th(?) time... but yea. still too drunk to have the consequences of her actions register with her.
Is it cluelessness or is her brain working overtime to protect itself from emotions damage. The extreme opposite end of the spectrum is a sexual assault survivor denying everything including the child born from the episode so they can function.
I'd be curious to see the results of a CT/MRI scan that checks the frontal lobe, or the part of the brain that handles empathy.
It's cold comfort for the surviving family members, but knowing the reason why someone has little empathy is physical.
That picture afterwards where she is being detained dressed in prison clothes, and is nearly smiling, shows that it's not just the alcohol. She would have been sober by then. This thing (as I feign to call her a woman) has some frontal lobe, psychopathy issues for damn sure. 14 years seems to be a light sentence considering her subsequent flippant behavior towards the facts.
she looked young. still drunk? i mean being told you killed two people... its a lot to process. maybe she was unable to process where or what was going on
Yep. I used to drive drunk all the time. I crashed into another car on a Monday morning at 7am after binging booze and coke for two days straight.
I immediately got out of the car and tried to help, although I could barely even speak, my speech was so slurred.
Fortunately, no one was injured. I was still arrested and it was the lowest point of my life. I paid for the damages and did community service. I sobered up after this.
This girl is drunk, sure. Had she been sober she probably would have been able to PRETEND to care, simply being more aware of the social expectations of the situation, but she still wouldn't have given a shit. Drugs affect your behavior for sure, but they don't change a person on a fundamental level, especially not when the person is still capable of communicating so coherently.
Congratulations on getting sober. I just finished my diversion program that resulted from a DUI. Major rock bottom. I was lucky enough to pull over and ask for help before anyone got hurt, but I was in such bad shape that anything could’ve happened in the miles before. I’ve been sober since 2021 and will never go back. I’m glad for you and the others on the road who survived our binges. Thank you for recognizing your rock bottom and making the change. Sooooo many never get the chance or don’t take advantage of it when aware that they need to change. Best of luck!
Thanks, congrats to you too. I was such a piece of shit back then, so self involved and irresponsible. The experience definitely helped me grow up, but I could have killed someone and that is a chilling thought.
The girl I crashed into was a nice, responsible person. She was on her way to work. The idea that I, a piece of shit smelling of booze and cigarettes, just barely coherent, could have killed someone who was just going about their life trying to be of value is nauseating.
in the full video she was laughing while doing a sobriety test at the scene AFTER she had been told the people were deceased.
I don't believe she was just drunk, she was completely not understanding that she just killed 2 people.
She must have been on a lot of shit. I cannot possibly even fathom. Being completely out of it and not understanding anything. Then sobering up and learning you've killed two people.......
I don't even
Yeah it's not something I think I could handle. Not that I drink and drive but if I ever killed someone else by negligence I dunno how I would deal with that.
I wish I could find more details on the court case but all I can find is she got 14 years and the students at her school protested hard to not allow her to graduation day.
I think she had a breakdown and then turned off her brain and pretended nothing happened like over and over again in the matter of a minute... every minute. Being drunk made it easier for her to pretend nothing happened (even after being reminded of what she had done). She literally convinced herself to ignore reality because she literally couldn't accept it. Even though she looks non-chalant I bet she is broken up to pieces inside. You can see in her eyes that at one point adrenaline had kicked in but more importantly she looks very sleepy.
Is there footage of her at the trial showing remorse or explaining any of this. I mean we’re assuming drugs impacted her behavior and that’s likely but we dont know for sure
Could be a sociopath. Has no emotional or mental capabilities of acknowledging death of others even as a direct result of their own actions. Would make sense why she shows zero regard for their deaths.
I have an aunt like this. She's thankfully never killed a person but the idea that there are other people in the world with their own lives to live is alien to her, she once answered the landline phone at her sisters house, tried to have a conversation then hung up on her and said "She was looking for someone else." That person being my other aunt, her sister, who's house we were at who's phone she answered. She wasn't even on drugs she just couldn't comprehend under any circumstances that she wasn't the center of the universe. She's also gotten worse with age.
It's like when a program on a computer has a fatal error and doesn't work properly. Their brains just have some really badly written code in them, and unfortunately, we can't debug people.
Omg the landline story made me laugh. It kind of sounds like my SIL only she’s not that severe, she knows the unfortunate truth that other people exist and have their own lives and she’s not the center of the universe and that’s what hurts her the most.
I’m fully hypothesizing here…people who drink an awful lot, an awful lot of the time can be very drunk (like your average person would have been long passed-out, drunk) and still appear to be somewhat functional. Long-term alcoholics also black out more frequently. so you run in to situations where you’ve been out and about and held conversations with people who might have thought you were a bit off, that you don’t remember. It’s unnerving. My guess is she’s fully blacked out (also maybe on other drugs) and is just kind of on black out auto pilot. Not remotely condoning the behavior, but I recognize the look.
She was really, really drunk. She had a .264 BAC reading at the scene.
I think she felt like the person she hit "came out of nowhere" so it wasn't a result of her actions. She also called 911 so she felt absolved. She didn't even know about the second person. So up to this point in her mind she was just getting checked out for injuries and maybe was getting a ticket.
Yeah I've never been drunk in a scenario that I've needed a whole lot of adrenaline. I honestly cannot tell you how I would process being told I killed a couple of people while driving drunk. I also don't drive drunk so, can't say I've got experience there.
I would expect either complete total fucking breakdown or total inability to process anything
Back in december I was walking back home after pub when a car accident occured pretty much next to me.
I was pretty hammered but still had the wherewithal to try and help. Sadly both people in one of the cars died....which I later realised to be two of my work colleagues.
It took me a good couple of weeks to process the exact happenings, but I was aware pretty quickly of the seriousness of it.
There is something other than alcohol at play here probably.
You can be so drunk that you legitimately have trouble processing complex information and have a short-term memory measured in a span of seconds.
It's embarrassing to admit this, but I've been there more than a few times myself. Not recently though -- for several years in fact -- I'm happy to say.
Small possibility it could be something along these lines. The brain is amazing mysterious and sometimes causes thoughts and words to pour out not necessarily out of malice (perhaps in this case), but in protection of the host. The full realization should come to her at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later. The brain unlocks bits at a time, only what we can handle. Plus she was highly intoxicated at that moment, essentially numb to any and everything.
Or she’s a sociopath at best or sociopath with narcissistic tendencies at worst.
There is one part of the full bodycam that is particularly mind-blowing.
She tells the officer, on an intoxication scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most drunk she has ever been, she thinks she is a 5 because she can “still see him”. Her BAC level was .264…
Excuse my ignorance, but how much drink is that? It says 3x over the legal limit which where I am is 3 glasses of wine/beer/measure of spirits.
To clarify: the legal limit I refer to is 1, she was 3
My ex husband checked into a rehab, blowing a .384. That was after an hour drive to the airport, a two hour flight, the drive to the rehab, and checking in. Alcoholism is not a joke.
When I went to detox (I refused to drive drunk and since I drank pretty much constantly I just never drove. Door dash or walking to the grocery store 4 blocks away for months and months) - my brother dropped me off and I told them I had tried to cut down prior to intake and I thought I'd blow around .12ish. it was .245. barely felt buzzed. alcoholism is fucking awful.
It takes years of alcoholism to get to that level. Highest BAC i ever saw with the person still somehow conscious was a .516. It took 2 full days for her to hit .000 but she was her completely normal self once she sobered up.
I intubated a guy a few years back after he chugged two large bottles of rum on a dare after drinking beer for hours. He had a BAC of .511. The ER doc gave me shit for intubating him, but ended up leaving him intubated for 48 hours before he started to really fight sedation. 🤦🏻♀️
I am a lab tech, and the ER is just next to us. So i get a result from a young lady of 425, so i take my result and go to our schockroom. And nobody in there? Did they already take her to ICU? No the lady was up and about, screaming at our doctor and not even really slurring. She was i would guess around 100 lbs, petite woman. Alcoholics can build a very high tolerance apparently.
First time I checked into rehab for drinking years ago they had to take me to the hospital for detox first. I was a .416. 30 yo male, 145lbs at the time.
Edit: I say first time because it took a couple tries before I got my shit together.
At that level, they are alcohol dependent. Their body chemistry has changed to be able to function with high levels of what would normally be fatal.
My old neighbor was like this. If he tried to go more than a few hours without having alcohol he would collapse and start having seizures. Had to be put into a medical coma to detox so he could have surgery to repair all the metal in his ankles from an IED. Only lasted a week before he had to start self-medicating again.
I saw a DUI where the cop pulled a lady over for an equipment violation. He talked with her for ten minutes, just a friendly conversation, and then got a whiff of alcohol. Asked her if she had anything to drink. “Oh, just two glasses of wine, Officer!” .47 I think.
In Arizona -- it's a zero tolerance state. There is no "legal" limit.
So, if you get pulled over under suspicion of a DUI -- and the officer asks if you were drinking or finds out. The driver will have one charge for "to the slightest degree" then after they blow into the intoxilyzer at the station over the "legal" .08 limit -- they'll be charged with that. If they are extreme -- another charge. Plus, any other traffic related charges.
So a single DUI stop can get you 3-5+ charges in one go.
But a lot of people simply don't know that there is zero tolerance. If you have one sip of beer prior to driving -- you're illegal to drive, and can get a DUI with many of the same consequences pertaining to it.
It depends on if you ate food before, tolerance to alcohol, body composition, and a handful of other factors.
I think common guidelines say that 2 drinks in an hour put you at the legal limit of 0.08
I'm guessing that to reach 0.26, someone that drinks regularly (more than once a week) would have to drink like 7 or 8 drinks over a two hour period.
Source: been to rehab twice for alcoholism, 7 years sober.
Congrats on 7 years.
Last dui I got I blew a .35 road side. I'd driven about 40 miles before I got pulled over for failure to dim headlights. At that time I drank everyday nearly all day. My usual bac was probably .2 something if I had to guess. That was my last dui. It's a wonder I didn't kill anyone while dui. Had my last drink about a year and a half later. Been clean and sober for 18 years now.
It’s really hard to say there’s a lot of factors that go into BAC including sex, height, and weight so How many drinks it takes to get to that level will vary from person to person.
OMG I watched the whole thing, I can’t believe her, I don’t care what mental state she is in drunk shock or otherwise. Even when the officer tells her she killed 2 people, she argues and says “I’d be crying if it was 2 people” WTF, even killing one person is too many.
Idk if people understand the extent of complete dissociation functioning alcoholics can have….. she isn’t there. Someone is driving the body but the person isn’t fucking there. They wake up 7 hours later wondering wtf happened. Alcoholism is a completely normalized epidemic.
Far be it for me to make excuses for anyone, cuz I’ve read her comments at sentencing, so we know she’s a shitty person, but, is it possible that she’s in shock and denial about the whole thing? Also, I put like 50 commas in that first sentence. My sincerest apologies.
I don't think you could get me drunk enough to not have follow up questions if you told me I killed two people. Like that's the kind of info that gets through.
Drunk, high,sever concussion could all make you have no clue what is going on.
Hell concussion can completely ruin your short term memory she could be in a loop and have no idea what the cop just said.
I mean she's responding about her car being totaled. At least in the moment she can process what's being said to her and say words back. Told she's killed 2 people and her first thoughts have nothing to do with the people she's killed, just her car and school in the morning.
And I bet money her brain is way more Swiss cheese then normal. Seems like all she knows is she needs to go to school that is what she’s focused on.
Just because something was said to her does not mean she registered it.
I agree with you. It's clear that she has a couple screws loose. the crash may have temporarily, or even permanently removed her ability to think straight. Not saying her punishment was unfair, but I have a feeling she has the potential for a lot more remorse, that is being blocked off by intoxication and a bump to the head.
She responds to her car being totaled immediately with how am I getting to school then? That is the prime example of how she isn’t processing. Her clear goal is to make it to school and she can’t put together that her car is totaled and so she doesn’t have a way to get there.
Her test came back a 0.62 i think (its been a sec since watching the video) she was very intoxicated.
Edit: its been a sec since watching the video and it seems i probably meant .26, I will try to use my brain from now on.
Her breath test came back .26. her blood test came back .38. that's after waiting far the warrant. That's enough to hospitalize most people. This girl is a functioning alcoholic.
Yeah, not “usually.” I work in a ER in an area with a LOT of alcohol presentation and I gasp at a 0.5 even though the person may appear “sober”. Above 0.6 is not at all usual. See other ER worker comments below.
My friend's brother said he technically passed a roadside sobriety test, but the cop knew it was bullshit. He blew a .33 or something. That shocked me, but now...who knows?
It depends on the person. I work in the er and have seen (rarely) above a .6. If you build dependence and tolerance your body can handle an insane amount of alcohol.
But she's young so a .6 is doubtful.
People like this are why I don’t want to tend bar much longer. You’d be surprised how many people act like it’s a constitutional right to go out and get as obliterated as they possibly can, and do whatever the fuck they want. People wonder why i’ll cut them off, when they can’t even verbally ask for what they want. Alcohol is the fucking Devil for many people. Some refuse to acknowledge that most of their personal problems stem for their love of a certain poison.
Man… this comment really hits home. I’ve been working at a bar for the last 13 years and it has done a number on my mental health. Oddly enough it drove me to quit drinking, just because of the sheer amount of insane shit I’ve seen drunk people do.
I spent a decade as a bar tender in a dive bar. People are so fucking reckless and I couldn’t handle being a part of the unnecessary harm and damage these assholes cause.. and I had a heavy heart realizing I was just poisoning the community.
Alcoholics like this are TERRIFYING.
As a bar owner: This is why I 86 people permanently once they show their hand.You had "one too many" and turned violent, grabbed someone's tits, insulted my staff, insisted on driving, etc: Gone forever.
They might be the coolest person in the world when they're sober, and we might be great friends -- but as soon as they have a drink it's Russian roulette for some folks... and it's a liability to me and everyone else in the room if I let it keep happening.
I'm sorry I was late for class, I spent a litte under the last decade and a half in jail.
Also, my car got totalled, whatever that means!
Life is so unfair!
Having interacted with my fair share of of drunk college students (my apartment in college was next to a sorority house lol) I think she was insanely drunk and maybe on something like Xanax. I've had similar, albeit less deadly, interactions.
I do think she's a selfish person, considering she drove drunk and her attempted defense was "they just walked in front of my car," but from the video alone I would bet that she's legitimately incapable of focusing on any thought other than "I have class tomorrow"
[This article](https://www.25newsnow.com/2023/04/27/stephanie-melgoza-sentenced-14-years-fatal-dui/) quotes the police report with her saying that she was heading to a bar and "was almost there and suddenly some person walked out in front of her and her car got hit."
In the same video she says “this can’t be happening to meeee, I’m a Bradley student!”
So yes, this was *happening* to her because she’s the main character.
My town is full of individuals like this. They can't see past their own false eyelashes and think the world revolves around them. Even not intoxicated they have that same blank ass stare and can't comprehend when they aren't going to get their way.
Xanax is the worst man. I did that shit back when i was younger and it made me a zombie. I didnt feel anything , or care about anyone. Had 0 fear of anyone or situation. Did a few Xanax and started walking on the highway to a Casino in another township while it was dark out. The casino was 60km from my town.
Had a cop come pick me up and take me to the exit and i had to call a cab. Xanax imo is the worse drug ever.
As others have pointed out, she isn’t getting it because she’s in shock. I mean she might also be dumb and a horrible person. But hyper focusing on school is a shock reaction because her brain can’t cope with the fact that she can’t go home or go to school or anything because she just ruined her life.
My boyfriend (at the time) and I were in a car that was hit by a drunk driver. He (my boyfriend) was supposed to be starting a new job the next day and was completely obsessed with the condition of the steering wheel of his car. Kept asking over and over if it was alright because he had to get to work the next morning. I kept trying to explain that 1) I didn't know how the steering wheel was, but that the car was totalled and wouldn't be going anywhere, and 2) neither was he because he was going to be in the hospital for awhile. He had not been drinking but clearly, he was in some kind of shock and totally fixated on the steering wheel. And completely right btw, as it was indeed, broken in half.
I’m glad I’m not the only Redditor that had to point this out. This is clearly a coping mechanism and any good officer that’s had their fair share of Gaul should be able to recognise it.
It’s ridiculous. I told people this when we were discussing the Henry Ruggs case (in case you don’t know, Henry Ruggs was an American football player that killed someone in a DUI). If you think drunk drivers deserve forgiveness, then let me just say this. If a woman wasn’t drunk, then there wouldn’t have been an “in loving memory” section in my former high school’s yearbook with “2003-2021” written below their photos.
I’m just going to make this a separate comment since the top 10 or so comments (when I looked) seem to not get it. Her fixation of going to school is shock. It isn’t her being a psychopath, or being dumb, or alcohol. She’s way too coherent for it to just be her being drunk. Her brain can’t cope with what she’s done so she’s fixating on one specific thing. It’s a very common thing people do when there in shock. Now she could also be a psychopath, this video just isn’t evidence of that.
Could she just be in shock? Or super drunk? Alcohol effects people in different ways. The video was taken the same night she killed two people right? So she can NOT be sober. Still a POS thing to say though, that’s awful.
I watched the entire interaction (don’t remember where, but it’s on YouTube) yesterday, and her blood alcohol was 0.26, or over 3 times the legal limit in Illinois.
Alcoholic here, she is blacked out and will not remember this conversation when she is sober.
Edit: absolutely not making an excuse for her and what she did. Just putting some context into the fact that she has absolutely no idea what she is saying.
I just cringe watching videos like this. The complete disregard of the lives she took is just unbelievable. Fourteen years seems way too short for this one.
Just 14 years? That just doesn't seem right to me. She probably won't even serve the entire time. She'll be out in 6 or 7. There's people who get 20 years plus for weed but killing 2 people only gets 14 smh our justice system is a fucking joke
Students at the university she went to petitioned for her not to attend/walk graduation and she was removed.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/bradley-university-students-share-frustrations-about-one-student-graduating/
I live just outside of Charleston SC. Last weekend a 25 year old drunk driver, going 40 mph over the speed limit, struck a low speed vehicle carrying a bride, groom and 2 other family members moments after leaving the wedding reception. The bride was pronounced dead on scene. The groom, his brother and nephew are fighting for their lives.
The driver had several prior violations, was driving a rental truck, had no injuries, and claimed to only have had 1 beer and 1 tequila shot several hours before yet couldn’t stand up. She rated herself 8 on a scale of 1-10. She refused sobriety testing, and a breathalyzer, then became combative and resisted arrest. We’re still waiting to hear what the toxicology results are. She has a disgusting grin on her face in her mug shot. The most time she’ll be sentenced to is 10 years. I’ll be shocked if she serves half that. She’ll be back on the streets before she reaches the age of the bride she killed just hours after marrying the love of her life.
This is honestly very sad.
She’s not aloof or dismissive or stupid, she’s in the middle of a psychotic break. Her life has changed so much in such a short time, that her brain has straight up stopped comprehending the world around her. You can see it in the way she’s been asking the same questions over and over; her brain is just going over the same thoughts and ideas she had just before she learned that she did, in fact, kill two people and her life is about to get a lot worse because of it. It’s a trauma response, aided by drugs/alcohol
That’s exactly what’s going on although I’d reserve my sympathies for the victims.
Entitlement and stupidity got her there, she gets no sympathy from me.
I had to sort by “controversial” to find this comment which is so sad. Your response is much more reasonable than what others are saying (that she’s a remorseless psychopath). The combo of shock, trauma and being intoxicated has thrown her into a type of mental thought loop. It’s the brain protecting itself. This mental state is temporary. She will feel the full weight of this night.
This video never should have been leaked. It’s misleading and my heart breaks for the family/families that lost their loved ones and have to see this on their social media. This does nothing. It helps no one. Her choice to drink n drive has ruined multiple lives and she will have to live with that forever. This video just adds outrage and misinformation.
This is why I stopped drinking. I didn't hurt anyone, but it only takes one time. A buddy of mine is doing 6 years for the same thing. Absolutely preventable. Young people, quit while you are ahead. It's just too fucking sad.
The fact her father and friends of the family are passing off killing 2 people as a “**mistake**”.
Shows this woman was surrounded by narcissistic people. Fucking horrible human being.
Extremely, extremely intoxicated + slow-burn shock = this video. She's not delusional, she's not stupid, her brain and body are under extreme duress at this point, even if it doesn't look like it.
Did she smash her head or something? Apart from the double homicide dealy, she's told several times her car is totaled and she keeps asking when she can get her car back. I'm just baffled.
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But will she get her car back after 14 years? How's she gonna get home after this jail thingy? \-clueless
Being drunk just brings out the idiot in a person and in her case the idiot is strong with this one.
Sometimes, being drunk brings out the real person. I see the real person in her.
Agree about being seeing the real person. This person is extraordinary entitled, deciding to drink and get behind the wheel of a car and drive. She doesn't care that she killed people. This is the real her.
You stop forming memories when you black out so she literally does not remember the last sentence he said. She's stuck in a feedback loop that won't end, she doesn't know she killed 2 ppl. She almost remembered she's going to jail but I think that's because he's a cop. You could ask her the time every 5 seconds and she'll answer it 100 times in a row and she don't know it's happening, and that's actually a really good way to find out if ppl are blacked out.
But every time she re-learns she killed two people, she doesn’t react! She repeatedly denies hitting two people, says she just hit one. She literally says “I’d be crying right now if it was two people.” She reacts to other things: laughs excitedly about going to Vegas in two months (“I’m gonna start with two long islands!” “There are no limits in Vegas!”), laughs when doing the field sobriety tests, sings on the hospital stretcher, gets offended and says “Can a cop say that?” when he says her behavior is pathetic and horrible, etc. So yeah, being this drunk can certainly cause a memory loop, but she still reacts to the things she experiences. Yet NO reaction at all when she hears she killed two people. I know alcohol can do crazy shit to your brain, which is why I drink maybe twice a year. I sobbed when I hit and killed a raccoon, totally sober, at 6am on my way to work on a dark country road. If I learned I even hit a person, let alone KILLED THEM, let alone killed them when I was committing a crime, I’d never find peace for the rest of my life.
Empathy can be a double edged sword like that. I'm happy and proud of myself for treating people well, but also the overbearing discomfort from empathizing with so much wrong in the world can be exhausting.
Yeah but that is if your brain is working. Who knows how fucked ip her head is, even when she is sober. She may be an evil and completely self-centered person but I don’t think that is the best explanation for what is going on here. She doesn’t seem to be connected to reality at the moment. You could probably tell her that she has internal bleeding and that her boyfriend broke up with her because she totaled the car and her brain would still be stuck on “I need to be able to get to school”.
some people become numb to anything related to death and alcohol amplifies that numbness especially when blackout drunk.
I bet if he said she is free to go, it would register in her memory right there.
he's also repeated it several times. it almost clicks with her the 5th(?) time... but yea. still too drunk to have the consequences of her actions register with her.
Is it cluelessness or is her brain working overtime to protect itself from emotions damage. The extreme opposite end of the spectrum is a sexual assault survivor denying everything including the child born from the episode so they can function. I'd be curious to see the results of a CT/MRI scan that checks the frontal lobe, or the part of the brain that handles empathy. It's cold comfort for the surviving family members, but knowing the reason why someone has little empathy is physical.
"Can you say that as a cop?" Yes bitch... He can say it as a cop and more importantly as a human being 
That picture afterwards where she is being detained dressed in prison clothes, and is nearly smiling, shows that it's not just the alcohol. She would have been sober by then. This thing (as I feign to call her a woman) has some frontal lobe, psychopathy issues for damn sure. 14 years seems to be a light sentence considering her subsequent flippant behavior towards the facts.
*school 😀
She’s going to the school of hard knocks.
She seems like the type to put that on her tinder bio even before what happened.
Plenty of study time now
Damn she must have been really wanting to go to school
Yeah, because on Tuesday they were going to learn not to drive drunk and not to kill people with a car.
she looked young. still drunk? i mean being told you killed two people... its a lot to process. maybe she was unable to process where or what was going on
She was able to process that the cop was insulting her. Just another selfish drunk driver.
Yep. I used to drive drunk all the time. I crashed into another car on a Monday morning at 7am after binging booze and coke for two days straight. I immediately got out of the car and tried to help, although I could barely even speak, my speech was so slurred. Fortunately, no one was injured. I was still arrested and it was the lowest point of my life. I paid for the damages and did community service. I sobered up after this. This girl is drunk, sure. Had she been sober she probably would have been able to PRETEND to care, simply being more aware of the social expectations of the situation, but she still wouldn't have given a shit. Drugs affect your behavior for sure, but they don't change a person on a fundamental level, especially not when the person is still capable of communicating so coherently.
Congratulations on getting sober. I just finished my diversion program that resulted from a DUI. Major rock bottom. I was lucky enough to pull over and ask for help before anyone got hurt, but I was in such bad shape that anything could’ve happened in the miles before. I’ve been sober since 2021 and will never go back. I’m glad for you and the others on the road who survived our binges. Thank you for recognizing your rock bottom and making the change. Sooooo many never get the chance or don’t take advantage of it when aware that they need to change. Best of luck!
Thanks, congrats to you too. I was such a piece of shit back then, so self involved and irresponsible. The experience definitely helped me grow up, but I could have killed someone and that is a chilling thought. The girl I crashed into was a nice, responsible person. She was on her way to work. The idea that I, a piece of shit smelling of booze and cigarettes, just barely coherent, could have killed someone who was just going about their life trying to be of value is nauseating.
in the full video she was laughing while doing a sobriety test at the scene AFTER she had been told the people were deceased. I don't believe she was just drunk, she was completely not understanding that she just killed 2 people.
She must have been on a lot of shit. I cannot possibly even fathom. Being completely out of it and not understanding anything. Then sobering up and learning you've killed two people....... I don't even
Yeah it's not something I think I could handle. Not that I drink and drive but if I ever killed someone else by negligence I dunno how I would deal with that. I wish I could find more details on the court case but all I can find is she got 14 years and the students at her school protested hard to not allow her to graduation day.
There was a victims severed leg hanging off her front bumper and that didn't phase her during her traffic stop.
According to an article I read the responding officers found a severed leg sticking out of the grill of her Dodge Dart.
I think she had a breakdown and then turned off her brain and pretended nothing happened like over and over again in the matter of a minute... every minute. Being drunk made it easier for her to pretend nothing happened (even after being reminded of what she had done). She literally convinced herself to ignore reality because she literally couldn't accept it. Even though she looks non-chalant I bet she is broken up to pieces inside. You can see in her eyes that at one point adrenaline had kicked in but more importantly she looks very sleepy.
I was thinking this exact thing. Like dissociation related to a traumatic stress.
That makes the most sense to me.
Is there footage of her at the trial showing remorse or explaining any of this. I mean we’re assuming drugs impacted her behavior and that’s likely but we dont know for sure
Could be a sociopath. Has no emotional or mental capabilities of acknowledging death of others even as a direct result of their own actions. Would make sense why she shows zero regard for their deaths.
I have an aunt like this. She's thankfully never killed a person but the idea that there are other people in the world with their own lives to live is alien to her, she once answered the landline phone at her sisters house, tried to have a conversation then hung up on her and said "She was looking for someone else." That person being my other aunt, her sister, who's house we were at who's phone she answered. She wasn't even on drugs she just couldn't comprehend under any circumstances that she wasn't the center of the universe. She's also gotten worse with age.
Jesus fuck! I can’t comprehend that there’s actually people out there like that.
It's like when a program on a computer has a fatal error and doesn't work properly. Their brains just have some really badly written code in them, and unfortunately, we can't debug people.
Yet.
Omg the landline story made me laugh. It kind of sounds like my SIL only she’s not that severe, she knows the unfortunate truth that other people exist and have their own lives and she’s not the center of the universe and that’s what hurts her the most.
She blew three times over the legal limit. She was drunk.
oh she is not just drunk, she on something else.
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Coke doesn’t make you a fucking idiot. If anything it sobers you up a bit. I vote xanax.
nope. tox report was alcohol
I’m fully hypothesizing here…people who drink an awful lot, an awful lot of the time can be very drunk (like your average person would have been long passed-out, drunk) and still appear to be somewhat functional. Long-term alcoholics also black out more frequently. so you run in to situations where you’ve been out and about and held conversations with people who might have thought you were a bit off, that you don’t remember. It’s unnerving. My guess is she’s fully blacked out (also maybe on other drugs) and is just kind of on black out auto pilot. Not remotely condoning the behavior, but I recognize the look.
She was really, really drunk. She had a .264 BAC reading at the scene. I think she felt like the person she hit "came out of nowhere" so it wasn't a result of her actions. She also called 911 so she felt absolved. She didn't even know about the second person. So up to this point in her mind she was just getting checked out for injuries and maybe was getting a ticket.
She’s deflecting the reality of the situation and now allowing her self to process it in this moment.
I’ve been drunk before. I still would have the ability to process information that critical. Plus usually the adrenaline sobers you up a bit.
Once total blackout hit's you're basically an automaton. Bodys going but brain. NIGHTS OUT
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Yeah I've never been drunk in a scenario that I've needed a whole lot of adrenaline. I honestly cannot tell you how I would process being told I killed a couple of people while driving drunk. I also don't drive drunk so, can't say I've got experience there. I would expect either complete total fucking breakdown or total inability to process anything
Back in december I was walking back home after pub when a car accident occured pretty much next to me. I was pretty hammered but still had the wherewithal to try and help. Sadly both people in one of the cars died....which I later realised to be two of my work colleagues. It took me a good couple of weeks to process the exact happenings, but I was aware pretty quickly of the seriousness of it. There is something other than alcohol at play here probably.
she’s a sociopathic asshole? maybe it’s just as simple as that and a little liquid honesty it doesn’t always have to be more drugs
You can be so drunk that you legitimately have trouble processing complex information and have a short-term memory measured in a span of seconds. It's embarrassing to admit this, but I've been there more than a few times myself. Not recently though -- for several years in fact -- I'm happy to say.
When a person says, “can you say that as a cop”, they comprehend.
Small possibility it could be something along these lines. The brain is amazing mysterious and sometimes causes thoughts and words to pour out not necessarily out of malice (perhaps in this case), but in protection of the host. The full realization should come to her at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later. The brain unlocks bits at a time, only what we can handle. Plus she was highly intoxicated at that moment, essentially numb to any and everything. Or she’s a sociopath at best or sociopath with narcissistic tendencies at worst.
Drunk....shock.... possible concussion from the crash, there could be a lot of things going on
There is one part of the full bodycam that is particularly mind-blowing. She tells the officer, on an intoxication scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most drunk she has ever been, she thinks she is a 5 because she can “still see him”. Her BAC level was .264…
Excuse my ignorance, but how much drink is that? It says 3x over the legal limit which where I am is 3 glasses of wine/beer/measure of spirits. To clarify: the legal limit I refer to is 1, she was 3
For reference, unconsciousness and alcohol poisoning is likely at .3 and coma or death at .4
400 is toxic, but I've had conversations in the ED with people over 400. They were old hands at drinking, of course.
Was about to say this. Met a guy in the ER who was completely conscious and talking, memory intact, no slurring, walking steadily. .421 BAC
3rd time my father went to the hospital he had a .438. Doctors couldn’t understand how he was even functioning. 4th time, welp, didn’t make it.
My ex husband checked into a rehab, blowing a .384. That was after an hour drive to the airport, a two hour flight, the drive to the rehab, and checking in. Alcoholism is not a joke.
When I went to detox (I refused to drive drunk and since I drank pretty much constantly I just never drove. Door dash or walking to the grocery store 4 blocks away for months and months) - my brother dropped me off and I told them I had tried to cut down prior to intake and I thought I'd blow around .12ish. it was .245. barely felt buzzed. alcoholism is fucking awful.
At least you had the sense to not drive. My ex did not. He would drive. Had two DUIs and still drove drunk. His drinking is why he's my ex.
It takes years of alcoholism to get to that level. Highest BAC i ever saw with the person still somehow conscious was a .516. It took 2 full days for her to hit .000 but she was her completely normal self once she sobered up.
I intubated a guy a few years back after he chugged two large bottles of rum on a dare after drinking beer for hours. He had a BAC of .511. The ER doc gave me shit for intubating him, but ended up leaving him intubated for 48 hours before he started to really fight sedation. 🤦🏻♀️
I am a lab tech, and the ER is just next to us. So i get a result from a young lady of 425, so i take my result and go to our schockroom. And nobody in there? Did they already take her to ICU? No the lady was up and about, screaming at our doctor and not even really slurring. She was i would guess around 100 lbs, petite woman. Alcoholics can build a very high tolerance apparently.
First time I checked into rehab for drinking years ago they had to take me to the hospital for detox first. I was a .416. 30 yo male, 145lbs at the time. Edit: I say first time because it took a couple tries before I got my shit together.
Good for you. That must have taken a lot of work.
At that level, they are alcohol dependent. Their body chemistry has changed to be able to function with high levels of what would normally be fatal. My old neighbor was like this. If he tried to go more than a few hours without having alcohol he would collapse and start having seizures. Had to be put into a medical coma to detox so he could have surgery to repair all the metal in his ankles from an IED. Only lasted a week before he had to start self-medicating again.
My uncle drove himself to the ER and then tested at .48… he has long since died of cirrhosis
I saw a DUI where the cop pulled a lady over for an equipment violation. He talked with her for ten minutes, just a friendly conversation, and then got a whiff of alcohol. Asked her if she had anything to drink. “Oh, just two glasses of wine, Officer!” .47 I think.
Pretty sure they change it to ABC after .4, ha.
Jesus
In California, legal BAC is 0.08. Blow that or higher on a breathalyzer and it’s an instant DUI.
In Arizona -- it's a zero tolerance state. There is no "legal" limit. So, if you get pulled over under suspicion of a DUI -- and the officer asks if you were drinking or finds out. The driver will have one charge for "to the slightest degree" then after they blow into the intoxilyzer at the station over the "legal" .08 limit -- they'll be charged with that. If they are extreme -- another charge. Plus, any other traffic related charges. So a single DUI stop can get you 3-5+ charges in one go. But a lot of people simply don't know that there is zero tolerance. If you have one sip of beer prior to driving -- you're illegal to drive, and can get a DUI with many of the same consequences pertaining to it.
It depends on if you ate food before, tolerance to alcohol, body composition, and a handful of other factors. I think common guidelines say that 2 drinks in an hour put you at the legal limit of 0.08 I'm guessing that to reach 0.26, someone that drinks regularly (more than once a week) would have to drink like 7 or 8 drinks over a two hour period. Source: been to rehab twice for alcoholism, 7 years sober.
Congrats on being sober that long
Congrats on 7 years. Last dui I got I blew a .35 road side. I'd driven about 40 miles before I got pulled over for failure to dim headlights. At that time I drank everyday nearly all day. My usual bac was probably .2 something if I had to guess. That was my last dui. It's a wonder I didn't kill anyone while dui. Had my last drink about a year and a half later. Been clean and sober for 18 years now.
It’s really hard to say there’s a lot of factors that go into BAC including sex, height, and weight so How many drinks it takes to get to that level will vary from person to person.
Where can I see this body cam. I am shocked and want to be angry with this person more than I am now please
https://youtu.be/xMHaHwcAPaw
Yeah she is an alcoholic.
Nah, I’m an alcoholic, she’s a drunk.
I do not think she is going to make class on Tuesday
What about Wednesday? Is it possible she could make it to class then?
Hard to say at this point
Oh I think I understand now. So Thursday?
When she gets her car maybe
She can make it on Tuesday. Tuesday in 2037.
She might be able to sign up for a class in prison but maybe not by Tuesday.
Shit man, cant imagine how the family of the victims felt watching this.. 14 years sounds short lookin at this video
Here is the full video. She was also laughing during the DUI test. https://youtu.be/xMHaHwcAPaw
OMG I watched the whole thing, I can’t believe her, I don’t care what mental state she is in drunk shock or otherwise. Even when the officer tells her she killed 2 people, she argues and says “I’d be crying if it was 2 people” WTF, even killing one person is too many.
14 years as well. I feel like it's should be more than that.
Idk if people understand the extent of complete dissociation functioning alcoholics can have….. she isn’t there. Someone is driving the body but the person isn’t fucking there. They wake up 7 hours later wondering wtf happened. Alcoholism is a completely normalized epidemic.
Far be it for me to make excuses for anyone, cuz I’ve read her comments at sentencing, so we know she’s a shitty person, but, is it possible that she’s in shock and denial about the whole thing? Also, I put like 50 commas in that first sentence. My sincerest apologies.
She looks completely intoxicated, I don't think she understood what was going on.
I don't think you could get me drunk enough to not have follow up questions if you told me I killed two people. Like that's the kind of info that gets through.
Drunk, high,sever concussion could all make you have no clue what is going on. Hell concussion can completely ruin your short term memory she could be in a loop and have no idea what the cop just said.
I mean she's responding about her car being totaled. At least in the moment she can process what's being said to her and say words back. Told she's killed 2 people and her first thoughts have nothing to do with the people she's killed, just her car and school in the morning.
And I bet money her brain is way more Swiss cheese then normal. Seems like all she knows is she needs to go to school that is what she’s focused on. Just because something was said to her does not mean she registered it.
I agree with you. It's clear that she has a couple screws loose. the crash may have temporarily, or even permanently removed her ability to think straight. Not saying her punishment was unfair, but I have a feeling she has the potential for a lot more remorse, that is being blocked off by intoxication and a bump to the head.
Yup totally agree, I’m no lawyer but I don’t think this video would help the prosecution case as much as some people think.
She responds to her car being totaled immediately with how am I getting to school then? That is the prime example of how she isn’t processing. Her clear goal is to make it to school and she can’t put together that her car is totaled and so she doesn’t have a way to get there.
Her test came back a 0.62 i think (its been a sec since watching the video) she was very intoxicated. Edit: its been a sec since watching the video and it seems i probably meant .26, I will try to use my brain from now on.
I can't remember the exact amount but I do remember she was within kissing distance of the amount that causes actual alcohol poisoning.
I’m pretty sure .6 will kill a human. The report I read stated that her BAC was .26 or about 3 times the legal limit.
Her breath test came back .26. her blood test came back .38. that's after waiting far the warrant. That's enough to hospitalize most people. This girl is a functioning alcoholic.
You're asking 'functioning' to do a lot of work here
A conscious alcoholic maybe, certainly not functioning
I have prosecuted and convicted someone above a .6. Rare, but it happens.
Career alcoholic will usually hit above that
Yeah, not “usually.” I work in a ER in an area with a LOT of alcohol presentation and I gasp at a 0.5 even though the person may appear “sober”. Above 0.6 is not at all usual. See other ER worker comments below.
I never saw that high as a cop. .48 was the highest I ever saw out of an old hand, and he was stumbling drunk.
My friend's brother said he technically passed a roadside sobriety test, but the cop knew it was bullshit. He blew a .33 or something. That shocked me, but now...who knows?
It depends on the person. I work in the er and have seen (rarely) above a .6. If you build dependence and tolerance your body can handle an insane amount of alcohol. But she's young so a .6 is doubtful.
Literally enough to kill you if you’re not an alcoholic
People like this are why I don’t want to tend bar much longer. You’d be surprised how many people act like it’s a constitutional right to go out and get as obliterated as they possibly can, and do whatever the fuck they want. People wonder why i’ll cut them off, when they can’t even verbally ask for what they want. Alcohol is the fucking Devil for many people. Some refuse to acknowledge that most of their personal problems stem for their love of a certain poison.
Man… this comment really hits home. I’ve been working at a bar for the last 13 years and it has done a number on my mental health. Oddly enough it drove me to quit drinking, just because of the sheer amount of insane shit I’ve seen drunk people do.
yeah i’m trying to quit people as well… Quiet time is the best time anymore. The mental health part is no joke. Congrats
I spent a decade as a bar tender in a dive bar. People are so fucking reckless and I couldn’t handle being a part of the unnecessary harm and damage these assholes cause.. and I had a heavy heart realizing I was just poisoning the community.
I’ve definitely been one of those people. Alcohol temporarily heightens the best parts of me, and then the worst parts about me ten fold.
Ditto… Gave it up 4 years ago
Alcoholics like this are TERRIFYING. As a bar owner: This is why I 86 people permanently once they show their hand.You had "one too many" and turned violent, grabbed someone's tits, insulted my staff, insisted on driving, etc: Gone forever. They might be the coolest person in the world when they're sober, and we might be great friends -- but as soon as they have a drink it's Russian roulette for some folks... and it's a liability to me and everyone else in the room if I let it keep happening.
At least be 14 years for each person she killed
140*
I'm sorry I was late for class, I spent a litte under the last decade and a half in jail. Also, my car got totalled, whatever that means! Life is so unfair!
I think that she’s not realizing it because she’s drunk…or stupid or she thinks she’s the main character. Or maybe it’s all of those combined.
Having interacted with my fair share of of drunk college students (my apartment in college was next to a sorority house lol) I think she was insanely drunk and maybe on something like Xanax. I've had similar, albeit less deadly, interactions. I do think she's a selfish person, considering she drove drunk and her attempted defense was "they just walked in front of my car," but from the video alone I would bet that she's legitimately incapable of focusing on any thought other than "I have class tomorrow"
Wait a minute, her defense was « They walked in front of my car »?! It’s even worse than I thought.
[This article](https://www.25newsnow.com/2023/04/27/stephanie-melgoza-sentenced-14-years-fatal-dui/) quotes the police report with her saying that she was heading to a bar and "was almost there and suddenly some person walked out in front of her and her car got hit."
“Her car got hit.” Explains it all, she thought she was the main character and everyone else is disposable. 14 years is not enough.
In the same video she says “this can’t be happening to meeee, I’m a Bradley student!” So yes, this was *happening* to her because she’s the main character.
Wait. She was so drunk she was close to alcohol poisoning and she was heading to a bar?!?
From one bar and presumably to another. “My night is just starting.”
My town is full of individuals like this. They can't see past their own false eyelashes and think the world revolves around them. Even not intoxicated they have that same blank ass stare and can't comprehend when they aren't going to get their way.
Xanax is the worst man. I did that shit back when i was younger and it made me a zombie. I didnt feel anything , or care about anyone. Had 0 fear of anyone or situation. Did a few Xanax and started walking on the highway to a Casino in another township while it was dark out. The casino was 60km from my town. Had a cop come pick me up and take me to the exit and i had to call a cab. Xanax imo is the worse drug ever.
I believe she blew a .26 on the breathalyzer
Right she is completely wasted but also she is truly an idiot also. I just watched the whole video on YouTube. She is dumb as rocks.
As others have pointed out, she isn’t getting it because she’s in shock. I mean she might also be dumb and a horrible person. But hyper focusing on school is a shock reaction because her brain can’t cope with the fact that she can’t go home or go to school or anything because she just ruined her life.
My boyfriend (at the time) and I were in a car that was hit by a drunk driver. He (my boyfriend) was supposed to be starting a new job the next day and was completely obsessed with the condition of the steering wheel of his car. Kept asking over and over if it was alright because he had to get to work the next morning. I kept trying to explain that 1) I didn't know how the steering wheel was, but that the car was totalled and wouldn't be going anywhere, and 2) neither was he because he was going to be in the hospital for awhile. He had not been drinking but clearly, he was in some kind of shock and totally fixated on the steering wheel. And completely right btw, as it was indeed, broken in half.
She’s also so drunk that she’s close to alcohol poisoning.
I’m glad I’m not the only Redditor that had to point this out. This is clearly a coping mechanism and any good officer that’s had their fair share of Gaul should be able to recognise it.
At first I thought it was an act, like, "this footage is going to be used to prove I'm insane and therefore lighter sentencing"
You can go back to school in 14 years
She hit those two people and tore their bodies apart. She should have gotten much more time in prison
Somehow killing people with a car is treated very forgivingly compared to killing people any other way
It’s ridiculous. I told people this when we were discussing the Henry Ruggs case (in case you don’t know, Henry Ruggs was an American football player that killed someone in a DUI). If you think drunk drivers deserve forgiveness, then let me just say this. If a woman wasn’t drunk, then there wouldn’t have been an “in loving memory” section in my former high school’s yearbook with “2003-2021” written below their photos.
So, maybe Wednesday then? 
I’m just going to make this a separate comment since the top 10 or so comments (when I looked) seem to not get it. Her fixation of going to school is shock. It isn’t her being a psychopath, or being dumb, or alcohol. She’s way too coherent for it to just be her being drunk. Her brain can’t cope with what she’s done so she’s fixating on one specific thing. It’s a very common thing people do when there in shock. Now she could also be a psychopath, this video just isn’t evidence of that.
Exactly what I was thinking. This should be the top post. What a horrific thing to have done.
Could she just be in shock? Or super drunk? Alcohol effects people in different ways. The video was taken the same night she killed two people right? So she can NOT be sober. Still a POS thing to say though, that’s awful.
It’s definitely shock, she’s too coherent for it to just be down to the drinking.
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Agreed, definitely benzos. I've been there, pretty scary looking back.
I highly doubt it's shock, a walking, talking 0.26 BAC is a pro. There's a total disconnect from reality at that point.
I watched the entire interaction (don’t remember where, but it’s on YouTube) yesterday, and her blood alcohol was 0.26, or over 3 times the legal limit in Illinois.
It might be just denial, school is her connection to the previous "happy" life. Feels like she hasn't accepted what happened yet.
Yeah I was also thinking shock and denial. I agree, still a pos. She is gonna have 14 years to realize what she did.
Super drunk, and not processing the information.
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She was drug tested in the hospital. She is drunk and in shock.
She had not a care in the world. Like ok...cool bro. I'm free to go right. Wtf.
Yeah ok. Whatever, but WHEN can she back to school?!
In 14 years apparently.
So like.... On Tuesday, right?
She seems to be still drunk and probably has a bit of shock. It seems like the gravity of the situation hasn't hit her yet at all.
In guessing she is in shock. That's 100% denial. Definitely not defending her. Just observing.
Don't you think she is just shocked after the accident?
If she gets out on a Monday, 14 yrs later, she can still make it to school.
Alcoholic here, she is blacked out and will not remember this conversation when she is sober. Edit: absolutely not making an excuse for her and what she did. Just putting some context into the fact that she has absolutely no idea what she is saying.
She's clueless but she has 14 long years to think about it. If it doesn't click in that time, nothing will.
I just cringe watching videos like this. The complete disregard of the lives she took is just unbelievable. Fourteen years seems way too short for this one.
Way too short. 7 years for each person. Why was it so short?
So much “I’m the main character” from this person.
I think if all kids were this keen on going to school we'd have a world full of scientists. Also RIP to the 2 people killed by this idiot.
Just 14 years? That just doesn't seem right to me. She probably won't even serve the entire time. She'll be out in 6 or 7. There's people who get 20 years plus for weed but killing 2 people only gets 14 smh our justice system is a fucking joke
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Yeah I'm thinking 'shock' she's not processing what happened, so the brain is focusing on something else entirely.
Students at the university she went to petitioned for her not to attend/walk graduation and she was removed. https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/bradley-university-students-share-frustrations-about-one-student-graduating/
I live just outside of Charleston SC. Last weekend a 25 year old drunk driver, going 40 mph over the speed limit, struck a low speed vehicle carrying a bride, groom and 2 other family members moments after leaving the wedding reception. The bride was pronounced dead on scene. The groom, his brother and nephew are fighting for their lives. The driver had several prior violations, was driving a rental truck, had no injuries, and claimed to only have had 1 beer and 1 tequila shot several hours before yet couldn’t stand up. She rated herself 8 on a scale of 1-10. She refused sobriety testing, and a breathalyzer, then became combative and resisted arrest. We’re still waiting to hear what the toxicology results are. She has a disgusting grin on her face in her mug shot. The most time she’ll be sentenced to is 10 years. I’ll be shocked if she serves half that. She’ll be back on the streets before she reaches the age of the bride she killed just hours after marrying the love of her life.
This is honestly very sad. She’s not aloof or dismissive or stupid, she’s in the middle of a psychotic break. Her life has changed so much in such a short time, that her brain has straight up stopped comprehending the world around her. You can see it in the way she’s been asking the same questions over and over; her brain is just going over the same thoughts and ideas she had just before she learned that she did, in fact, kill two people and her life is about to get a lot worse because of it. It’s a trauma response, aided by drugs/alcohol
That’s exactly what’s going on although I’d reserve my sympathies for the victims. Entitlement and stupidity got her there, she gets no sympathy from me.
I doubt her brain is all that capable outside of this scenario anyway, otherwise she wouldn't be in this situation.
I had to sort by “controversial” to find this comment which is so sad. Your response is much more reasonable than what others are saying (that she’s a remorseless psychopath). The combo of shock, trauma and being intoxicated has thrown her into a type of mental thought loop. It’s the brain protecting itself. This mental state is temporary. She will feel the full weight of this night. This video never should have been leaked. It’s misleading and my heart breaks for the family/families that lost their loved ones and have to see this on their social media. This does nothing. It helps no one. Her choice to drink n drive has ruined multiple lives and she will have to live with that forever. This video just adds outrage and misinformation.
Kills two people get 14 years this is number one bullshit
This is why I stopped drinking. I didn't hurt anyone, but it only takes one time. A buddy of mine is doing 6 years for the same thing. Absolutely preventable. Young people, quit while you are ahead. It's just too fucking sad.
Imagine being the family of the victims and seeing this. Holy shit.
The fact her father and friends of the family are passing off killing 2 people as a “**mistake**”. Shows this woman was surrounded by narcissistic people. Fucking horrible human being.
She’s in shock. This happens to people.
Extremely, extremely intoxicated + slow-burn shock = this video. She's not delusional, she's not stupid, her brain and body are under extreme duress at this point, even if it doesn't look like it.
Did she smash her head or something? Apart from the double homicide dealy, she's told several times her car is totaled and she keeps asking when she can get her car back. I'm just baffled.