Woman charged in deaths of Marquette athletes

MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin operator progressive successful a postulation clang past week that killed 2 Marquette University lacrosse players was drunk astatine the time, authorities alleged Wednesday successful charging her with vehicular homicide.

Amandria Brunner, 41, of West Allis, faces 2 counts of homicide by an intoxicated usage of a conveyance portion having a anterior intoxicant-related conviction. She faces up to 80 years successful situation if convicted of some counts.

According to a transgression complaint, the clang happened connected Friday successful Milwaukee erstwhile Brunner tried to crook near successful beforehand of an SUV that was taking six Marquette men's lacrosse players to a thrift store. Scott Michaud, a 19-year-old sophomore goalie and biomedical sciences large from Springboro, Ohio, and 20-year-old Noah Snyder, a sophomore attackman and concern pupil from Irving, New York, were pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

A witnesser told constabulary that she helped Brunner retired of her pickup motortruck and noticed Brunner smelled of intoxicant and kept trying to enactment gum successful her mouth. Police besides recovered an unfastened brew tin successful her truck, according to the transgression complaint.

Brunner's blood, which was drawn astir 2 hours aft the crash, had a humor intoxicant contented of 0.133, which exceeds the state's ineligible bounds to thrust of 0.08.

An investigation of the clang recorder successful Brunner's motortruck recovered that she had been stopped for astir 3 seconds earlier she pulled into the intersection with the accelerator depressed astir each the mode to the floor, according to the complaint. She was traveling conscionable nether 12 mph (19 kph) erstwhile she struck the SUV, and she ne'er braked.

Brunner was convicted of operating portion intoxicated successful November 2003, the ailment says.

Online tribunal records indicated Brunner was successful custody successful the Milwaukee County Jail connected Wednesday. Records did not database an lawyer for her.

Michaud and Snyder were named to the Big East's all-academic squad past twelvemonth for maintaining grade-point averages of astatine slightest 3.0. Snyder played successful 13 of Marquette's 14 games past season, making 3 starts successful the midfield and collecting 9 goals and 7 assists.