A woman who killed two people, including a 6-year-old boy, when she drove through a Kansas soccer game last month had taken a nap in her parked vehicle before it accelerated and won’t be criminally charged, officials said Thursday.
\n\nThe crash on Oct. 17 at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita killed a 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man, and injured 10 others when the vehicle drove through onto a soccer field at around 3:30 p.m.
\n\n“I can not only find no evidence of an intentional crime, I can find affirmative evidence that there was not an intentional crime,” Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said at a news conference.
\n\nAn off-duty police officer and others went to the truck after it had crashed and found the 34-year-old driver crying, Bennett said. The woman has not been publicly identified.
\n\n“What they found was a sobbing, at turns described as frantic, hysterical, saying ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, what have I done,’ — words to that effect,” Bennett said.
\n\nHe said the accounts of the people who were there that day said “she was sleepy, looked like she had just woken up, these are comments from witnesses who arrived there at the…
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