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Meredith Gaudreau Pregnant With Third Baby
As if the Gaudreau's story couldn't get any more tragic, Johnny's wife, Meredith, announced she's nine weeks pregnant with their third child — "a total surprise" — at his funeral service on Monday, Sept. 9. During her eulogy live-streamed by the Calgary Flames, Meredith said she and John shared an amazing six months as a family of four. Then announced there was another baby on the way. The audience audibly gasped at the news. "These will forever be the best six months of my life," she said from the service in Delaware County, PA. "There's specifically one week I'll cherish forever, it…
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Here's Livestream For Gaudreau Brothers' PA Funeral
A funeral service for brothers Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau is underway. UPDATE: John Gaudreau's Wife Announces Pregnancy With Third Baby At Funeral The Calgary Flames are streaming the Pennsylvania service. Click here for the link. The brothers were struck and killed by a suspected drunk driver while riding their bicycles on Aug. 29 in New Jersey. The service began at 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St Mary Magdalen's Church in Media, PA. Police said that the event will cause major impacts to traffic.
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'It Was Always Matty And John:' Pregnant Gaudreau Widow Has Special Message For Sister-In-Law
Madeline Gaudreau is speaking out after her husband and his brother's death, leaving her a single mom-to-be — tragically, unexpectedly. Madeline, who was expecting baby Tripp with 29-year-old Matthew Gaudreau when he and his 31-year-old brother Johnny were struck and killed by suspected drunk driver and New Jersey National Guardsman, Sean Higgins. She says the two were each other's best friends. "It was always Matty & John," Madeline said on Instagram days after the Oldmans Township crash. "I can’t even put into words the bond these two had and right now I don’t have the strength.…
Sports
NHL Star, Brother On Bikes Killed By Drunk Driver Before Sister's Philly Wedding: Troopers
An NHL star and his brother from Salem County were killed by a suspected drunk driver one day before their sister's wedding, authorities said. Johnny Gaudreau of Carneys Point and Matthew Gaudreau of Pedricktown died on Thursday, Aug. 29, a state police spokesperson confirmed to Daily Voice. Troopers responded to the crash near milepost 11.1 on County Route 551 in Oldmans Township at around 8:19 p.m. Sean Higgins of Woodstown was accused of driving drunk during the crash. The 43-year-old was charged with two counts of death by auto. Johnny Gaudreau, 31, played 11 N…
Police & Fire
Wrong-Way DUI Driver Who Killed PA Woman, Injured Nine In I-495 Maryland Crash Sentenced
The Georgia man who killed a Pennsylvania woman in a three-vehicle wrong-way Montgomery County crash that left nine others - including several children - will spend nearly a decade in prison, authorities announced on Monday. Montezuma native Jayleen Hannor, 24, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison with all but eight years to serve in connection to the fatal crash that took the life of 36-year-old Easton, Pennsylvania resident Elizabeth "Liza" Velez in a crash last summer. Elizabeth "Lisa" Velez GoFundMe Shortly before 11:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, Maryland State Police in…
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Infant Among 8 Hospitalized After Horse-Buggy Crash Involving DUI: PSP
A 5-month-old infant and seven other Amish people were hospitalized after being rear-ended by an allegedly drunk and high driving, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Monday, July 22. James Leo Walkergoutal, 27 of West Chester, was found "under the influence of alcohol and drugs" when he rear-ended the horse and buggy, Pennsylvania State Police Lancaster Trooper James Grothey wrote in the release. Walkgoutal had been driving his Toyota Prius east on Lincoln High East/US Route 30 when he struck the horse-and-buggy just west of Slaymaker Hill Road, Paradise Township, …
Police & Fire
Police Officer Hurt In Bucks County Crash: Authorities
A Perkasie police officer was briefly hospitalized and a driver is in custody after a two-car crash on Sunday night, Nov. 19, according to officials. The officer was headed north on Arthur Avenue near the Perkasie Library around 9:30 p.m. when a southbound Volkswagen Tiguan crossed into his lane, authorities said. After an "offset head-on collision," the officer was treated at Grandview Hospital and released, said the department. Police said the driver of the Tiguan, a 29-year-old Telford woman, "displayed signs of intoxication at the scene" and was arrested aft…
Police & Fire
Truck Containing Power Line Worker Suspended In Air Struck By DUI Driver In PA: Cops
A 24-year-old man was drunk when he struck a work-bucket truck containing a worker 20 feet in the air last September in Pennsylvania, authorities said. The worker was operating on power lines when he was struck by Ramon Lopez Jr., of East Petersburg, on Sept. 10 around 1:10 p.m. on the 300 block West Swartzville Roa in Denver, East Cocalico police said. Lopez fled the scene, police said. Witnesses gave the vehicle registration number to officers, giving police Lopez's address. Northern Lancaster County Regional Police stopped the vehicle after a BOLO alert was issued, and d…
Police & Fire
Seriously Injured Pedestrian Cited After Hit By Car: Pa State Police
A 28-year-old woman has been cited after she was struck crossing a street, according to the Pennsylvania State Police. Alyssa Nicole White of Newmanstown was crossing South Sheridon Road at its intersection with Memorial Boulevard of Millcreek Township when she was struck by a 2017 Audi A4, state police detailed in a release on Sept. 19. This pedestrian striking incident happened at 2:17 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16, PSP detailed in the release. White was taken to Reading Hospital with suspected serious injuries, while the driver of the Audi, 26-year-old Matt…
Police & Fire
PA Driver Charged With Homicide By Vehicle In Deadly DUI Crash: Police
An Emmaus man is charged with homicide by vehicle after police say he was driving under the influence during a deadly crash in Allentown late last year. Chase R. Strahler, 25, faces multiple felony offenses for the wreck that killed 63-year-old John Sassaman on Oct. 2, said the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office and Allentown police. First responders were called to the 400 block of South 24th Street just before 1 a.m. that morning for a serious crash, the release says. They arrived to find Strahler's Jeep Grand Cherokee facing east in the southbound lane and Sassaman's Hyundai So…
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Guilty
! PA Driver Admits To DUI At High-Speed In Deadly Crash
A 30-year man has pleaded guilty to killing a man while driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol in central Pennsylvania, police say. Derek James Sensenig, 30, of Akron, was speeding and weaving in and out of traffic in his 2020 Lincoln Aviator SUV when he crossed the double yellow line and caused a two-crash in the 3900 block of Oregon Pike on Friday, September 2, 2022, at 11:37 a.m., according to West Earl Township police. Sensenig hit a 2011 Toyota Camry driven by Jeffrey Myers, 65, of Brownstown who "was pronounced deceased upon arrival at (Lancas…
Traffic
Police Allege Driver On Drugs Caused Crash Killing Mom At Lancaster, Lebanon County Line
A 41-year-old mom is dead and several others have been injured following a crash on State Route 322, authorities say. Bethany Welch of Palmyra was in the passenger seat of a sedan involved in the crash with a commercial van and a tractor-trailer, the coroner announced the following afternoon. The deadly head-on collision happened on West 28th Division Highway (SR322) near the Lancaster and Lebanon County line just before 2:22 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 22, the NLCRPD detailed in a release. The Brickerville Fire Company, EMS,The Lancaster County Crash Team, and the Lancaster County Coroner…
Sports
‘Gonna
F---
ing Regret It’: Bodycam Vid Of Devils Assistant Coach’s DUI Arrest Released
A golf cart, an empty street and an aggressive sheriff’s deputy have produced a viral video of New Jersey Devils Assistant Coach Andrew Brunette being arrested for drunk driving -- on a golf cart. “You f---ing fight me and you’re f---ing gonna regret it,” a combative law enforcement officer in Florida tells Brunette while handcuffing him. The Feb. 1 exchange between the Broward County sheriff’s deputy and the former Florida Panthers head coach was captured in police bodycam video obtained by Fox Sports 640 host Andy Slater and posted via his Slater Scoops podcast. Slater dropped the vide…
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Horse-Buggy Struck By Drunk Woman Across From Police Station In PA, Authorities Say
A 60-year-old Coatesville woman has been arrested after she drunkenly crashed into a horse-and-buggy across the street from a police station in Lancaster County, police announced of Thursday, March 30, 2023. Joyce Elaine Martin, "displayed signs of impairment" when the police come over to Shady Maple Smorgasbord to investigate the vehicle verse horse-and-buggy crash reported on March 10 at 5:50 p.m., according to the East Earl Township Police Department. It is unclear if any person or if the horse was hurt in the crash. A breathalyzer test showed Martin had a blood alcohol conc…
Police & Fire
Upper Darby Mayor Crashed Car While DUI: Police Papers
Upper Darby Mayor Barbarann Keffer was under the influence of alcohol when she crashed her car into a guardrail in Upper Chichester Thursday, Jan. 26, authorities said. According to a criminal complaint obtained by Daily Voice, Upper Chichester police noticed a car that was driving with a flat tire and a busted headlight on Conchester Highway just after 9 p.m. The driver was bobbing between lanes when officers signaled for them to pull over, police wrote. Officers approached the car and noticed fresh-looking damage to the front passenger side, per the charging documents. Th…
Police & Fire
Trucker Who Crashed Into Fireman's Pregnant Wife Charged With Murder: Montco DA
The West Virginia driver who lost control of a dump truck and fatally struck the pregnant wife of a firefighter now faces two murder charges, officials say. Everett Clayton, 56, was arrested in Boston last month for homicide by vehicle and related charges stemming from the accident that happened in Lower Providence Township, on Aug. 25, as Daily Voice reported. Investigators have said Clayton was driving on the 500 block of South Park Avenue when he lost control of his dump truck and crashed head-on into pregnant 31-year-old Kellie Adams of Lansdale, who died at the scene. Emersyn Grac…
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High, Drunk Driver Endangering Children Uses Cuffs To Cut Through Cop Car, Attacking PA Police
A 47-year-old woman drove while drunk and high on marijuana with two children in her car and then attacked police officers, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Danielle L. Watkins was stopped with her taillights and one headlight out in the 1500 block of Old Trail Road in Newberry Township, on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022 around 11:30 p.m., according to a police release by area police on Nov. 20 and court records subsequently obtained by Daily Voice. Harrisburg woman was arrested on charges of DUI and endangering the welfare of two children after a traffic stop in the…
Schools
Central PA Football Player's Former Girlfriend Charged Months After Deadly Crash, Suicide
Investigation details and new charges have been released in the shocking deaths of two Conestoga Valley High School football players who died over the weekend of June 25. Tyler Zook, a 17-year-old Senior at Conestoga Valley High School from Lancaster, was the driver of the 2014 Hyundai Sante Fe; his girlfriend Amalie Wendt, an 18-year-old 2022 CV graduate from Ronks was the front-seat passenger; and Tyreese Smith, a 16-year-old CV Junior from Lancaster, was a rear-seat passenger when the group was going over 90 mph in 40 mph zone of the 500 block of Willow Road around 12:13 a.m., according t…
Police & Fire
Drunk Driver Hits Pennsylvania State Trooper Investigating Another DUI Crash In Lebanon: Police
A drunk driver crashed into a Pennsylvania state trooper's vehicle who was investigating an earlier crash involving another driver who was allegedly under the influence, Pennsylvania state police on Saturday, Nov. 6. The first crash happened in the 1800 block of SR72 in North Lebanon Township on Oct. 22 around 2 a.m., according to the release. In that incident, an 18-year-old Fredricksburg woman who was driving a 2006 Nissan Altima admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking weed before driving and was charged following a blood draw, the police explain in the release. &nb…
Obituaries
Paperwork Confusion Means 25 PA Drunk Drivers Should Have Lost Licenses Before Fatal Crash: DA
A 30-year man with a history of drunk driving was supposed to have his license revoked before a deadly crash in central Pennsylvania, and the investigation into the crash revealed 24 other times court documents were not properly filed and drivers licenses were not revoked, authorities say. Derek James Sensenig, 30, of Akron, was speeding and weaving in and out of traffic in his 2020 Lincoln Aviator SUV when he crossed the double yellow line and caused a two-crash in the 3900 block of Oregon Pike on Friday, September 2 at 11:37 a.m., according to West Earl Township police. Sensenig hit a 2…
Police & Fire
'Intoxicated' PA Man Shot, Killed By State Police After Trying To Run Over Trooper
A 41-year-old Pennsylvania man who left a bar intoxicated was shot and killed by state police troopers after "intentionally" driving his pickup truck into one of them and crashing into a police SUV, authorities said. Jason Kilduff, of Pittston, was "highly intoxicated" and assaulted a patron and an employee at the Ole Tyme Charley’s Pub and Grill in Plains Township when troopers were called there around 1:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 30, according to Pennsylvania State Police in Wilkes-Barre. When police arrived, Kilduff “intentionally” drove his pickup toward two troopers in an “at…
Police & Fire
Community Rallies Behind PA Family Hit By Drunk Driver, Left With Medical Debt
A Pennsylvania community is rallying behind a tight-knit family after they were hit by a drunk driver on Sunday, Sept. 11, according to a fundraiser made on their behalf. The crash sent Maureen Connolly and several members of the Stauffer family to the hospital, according to the GoFundMe based out of Malvern, PA. "Kate, Nick, and Mo are all stable, but Larry is still in critical condition," reads the fundraiser, launched by Kay S. Bee. After suffering from multiple lesions, broken bones, and undergoing several surgeries, Larry faces a long road to recovery. Bee created the GoFun…
Police & Fire
Woman Accused Of Killing PA Troopers, Pedestrian On I-95 Released On Bail
The 22-year-old woman accused of killing two Pennsylvania State Police troopers and a pedestrian on I-95 in Philadelphia earlier this year has been released on bail, court records show. Jayana T. Webb, of Eagleville, was driving the speeding car that struck and killed Trooper Martin F. Mack III, 33, and Trooper Branden T. Sisca, 29, as well as Reyes Rivera Oliveras, 28, of Allentown, near southbound milepost 18 on March 21, authorities said. Webb posted 10 percent of $600,000 bail on Wednesday, Sept. 14, according to court records. She is charged with third-degree murder, homici…
Police & Fire
DUI Motorcyclist Killed In Central PA Crash Was Not Wearing Helmet: Police
A 35-year-old motorcyclist was drunk and was not wearing a helmet when he crashed and died Friday, Sept. 2 in Dauphin County, authorities said. Thomas Toolan was heading east on his 2008 Harley-Davidson on the 7600 block of Allentown Boulevard "at a suspected high speed" when he veered into the right shoulder and struck the guide rail around 10:15 p.m., PA State Police said. Toolan was thrown from the bike and hit his head before he came to a stop in the shoulder. The motorcycle continued east over the concrete median and struck two trailers on the other side of the highway a…
Police & Fire
Meet Ms. Velvet: PA Man's New Cafe Pays Homage To Sister Killed By Drunk Driver
They called her Ms. Velvet. That is, both Ruby Marrero and the new cafe that her brother, Carlos Marrero, is opening in her memory. Ruby was killed by a drunk driver in a hit-and-run crash in February 2017 in Allentown. On Monday, Aug. 29, Carlos opened Ms. Velvet just two blocks from the crash scene, in an effort to keep his sister's name alive. Ms. Velvet’s is inspired by and in loving memory of Ruby Marrero, a vessel of fun, life, and love," the cafe's website reads. The restaurant's name is an homage to Ruby's red locks. Her family nicknamed her Ruby Red, Strawberry Shortcake, and C…
Police & Fire
State Police ID Philadelphia Man Killed By Suspected Drunk Driver While Fixing Tire In NJ
A 40-year-old motorist from Philadelphia was struck and killed by a suspected drunk driver while fixing a tire in South Jersey, authorities said. Wayne Doharty was killed around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 7 in Gloucester County, New Jersey State Police said. Based on the preliminary investigation, Doharty was driving northbound on Route 55 near milepost 43.6 in Franklin Township when his vehicle had a “tire malfunction” and he stopped to fix it, said Trooper Brandi Slota, a State Police spokeswoman. Brian Caldwell, 48, of Cape May, was driving a pickup truck northbound on Route 55 …
News
PA Woman Who Killed Firefighter Nabbed In Maryland: US Marshals
A Pennsylvania woman on parole for killing a firefighter was arrested on the run in Maryland, according to the US Marshals. Khanyae Kendall, 23, of Harrisburg, pleaded guilty to killing Denny Devoe while he was on-duty in 2017, according to US Marshal Martin J. Pane and court records. Kendall was driving a stolen vehicle under the influence at the time of the fatal crash, court records show. She was sentenced to a prison term of five to 12 years, but on Mar. 10, 2022, she was released under the supervision of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, according to US Marshal Pane. …
Police & Fire
'I'm The Best Drunk Driver Ever:' Says Woman Accused Of Killing PA Troopers, Pedestrian On I-95
Twitter users are slamming the 21-year-old woman accused of killing two Pennsylvania State Police troopers and a pedestrian on I-95 on Monday, March 21, after a tweet about her alleged drunk driving skills surfaced. “If you ask me, I’m the best drunk driver ever,” Jayana Tanae Webb, says in a Jan. 15 tweet. Webb, of Eagleville, was driving the speeding car that struck and killed Trooper Martin F. Mack III, 33, Trooper Branden T. Sisca, 29, and Reyes Rivera Oliveras, 28, of Allentown, near southbound milepost 18 just before 1 a.m., Pennsylvania State Police said. The troopers were trying t…
Police & Fire
Philadelphia Passenger, 66, Dies Of Injuries From Fatal DWI Crash In South Jersey: Police
A 66-year-old Philadelphia passenger has died from her injuries in a wrong-way drunk driving crash in South Jersey, authorities said. Melinda S. Hart died Tuesday at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, Gloucester Township police said on Monday, March 21. Hart was a passenger in a car that was hit head-on about 2 p.m. on Feb. 24 on the Black Horse Pike near Landing Road. The Gloucester Township Police Department Serious Crash Investigation Team (SCIT) conducted an investigation into the cause of the crash. It determined that the driver of a gray Chevrolet Traverse, Elizabeth V. McDonel, 4…
News
Driver Of Airborne Vehicle With Infant Had BAC 4X Legal Limit: Police
A Pennsylvania woman has been arrested on a warrant nearly a week after she crashed her BMW into multiple vehicles— before becoming airborne —landing on the roof of a restaurant with an infant in the backseat, according to a release by the police. Theresa Joanne Risso, 43, had her blood alcohol levels tested following the crash and the results show .327 percent, the legal limit is .08 percent, according to the release by Shamokin Dam police. A warrant was issued for her arrest when the police went to retest her levels and search her home, but she was nowhere to be found, Shamokin Dam polic…
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Grand Jury: Police Justified Shooting Fleeing Driver Who Pointed Gun On NJ Highway Intersection
UPDATE: Police were justified in shooting a fleeing motorist when he pointed a gun at them at a convergence of highways in Wayne, a state grand jury has found. Bradley G. Pullman, 48, of Queens is seen on dashcam video pointing the gun out of his Lexus sedan following a high-speed chase that ended at the “spaghetti bowl” intersection of Route 46, 23 and 80 near the Willowbrook Mall. The video was among the evidence reviewed by the grand jury, along with witness testimony, reports and autopsy results, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. Grand jury reviews are mandated …
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