Hadn’t seen anything about this showing up on the main page. Remember that juvenile (both literally and figuratively) dirtbag-in-training Texas 16-year-old teen who hit multiple cyclists with his truck while trying to “roll coal” on the group, leading to multiple major injuries requiring medevac by helicopter? Then the police let him go free from the scene without a single charge? Yeah, that one. You remember.
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Well. It appears he done went and got himself a whole mess of felony charges. Finally. Belatedly. The felony charges that he should have been hit with the very same day it happened. Not six weeks later. Anyway, wheels of justice turning slowly and all that.
Houston Chronicle:
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A teen who struck six cyclists while allegedly blanketing them in black smoke along a Waller County road faces six felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis presented the case to a grand jury last week, with the recommended charges.
Chron.com (Also Houston Chronicle? But different author/article):
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Following a six-week inquiry, the Waller County District Attorney's office on Monday announced felony charges for a teenage driver involved in a collision with six cyclists on a county road on Sept. 25.
The 16-year-old driver was allegedly attempting to billow exhaust from his Ford Super Duty onto a group of riders training for a triathlon on Old Highway 290 when he lost control and drove his vehicle into the group, hitting six riders and hospitalizing four. The driver stopped and spoke with responding officers, but left the scene without charges or a citation, incensing local bike advocates and spurring a war of words between Waller District Attorney Elton Mathis and Waller Police Chief Bill Llewellyn over how the incident was initially handled.
WaPo (paywalled):
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