.Detroit -- A teenager drove nearly 140 miles every hour only days before a high-speed crash in rural Detroit final November that killed his good friend, depending on to video gotten through CBS Information today. On Nov. 17, 2023, Flynn MacKrell, 18, was a traveler in a BMW X3 that collapsed right into an electrical post and plant moments after he left his home in the area of Grosse Pointe Farms.Flynn's 16-year-old friend, Kiernan Tague, lagged the steering wheel and also endured. Cops mention Tague was steering over 100 mph on a non commercial street where the speed limitation was actually 25 miles per hour.
" Everyday I get out of bed and also it virtually believes that a scary program," Anne Vanker, Flynn's mom, told CBS News. MacKrell's parents believe Tague's mama, Elizabeth Puleo-Tague, could as well as must have quit him.
" I believe both of all of them need to go to prison," claimed Thad MacKrell, Flynn's dad, of Tague and his mom. " Gross negligence homicide for Elizabeth," Vanker said. Detectives discovered cellphone online videos on Tague's phone showing a trend of excessive speeding, matched they say through records from an app contacted Lifestyle 360 which his mommy utilized to track his auto in the full weeks leading up to the collision. Throughout a 17-day time period, the application captured that regarding a fourth of his trips entailed speeds over one hundred miles per hour, and also 10% entailed velocities over 120 miles per hour.
Authorities records showed that Tague's mom was concerned concerning her boy's driving, texting him the moment that "it scares me to my bone," as well as afterward to "reduce the f-- down today!" Tague was charged in March with second-degree murder and remains out on bond. If found guilty, he could be sentenced a minimum of somewhat as a grownup. When talked to through CBS News, the loved ones's attorney possessed no comment, mentioning continuous litigation.Anne and Thad contrast the claim to that of Oxford, Michigan, school shooting Ethan Crumbley. Both his parents were actually independently convicted previously this year for certainly not safeguarding the gun he utilized in the 2021 murder of four people.CBS News lawful factor Jessica Levinson mentions she feels this instance could be also more powerful." She possessed months and also months of knowledge of her son's reckless driving," Levinson said. "And also she certainly not merely stopped working to take the secrets away. She in fact gave him an auto that can go a lot faster.".
Lilia Luciano.
Lilia Luciano is an award-winning reporter and also CBS News 24/7 anchor and contributor based in New York Urban Area. Luciano is the recipient of multiple news honors, featuring a Walter Cronkite Award, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award as well as five regional Emmys.