A drunken boating killed a ten-year-old girl and seriously injured a woman while driving a boat on a North Carolina lake on Saturday afternoon.
Quinten Kight, a 40 -year -old man, led into intoxication of his girlfriend’s boat on Lake Harris, when he hit swimmers, prosecutors said at his hearing in court on Monday.
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No less than 39 empty beer cans were discovered on his boat, including “seven who had been shotgun“Confirmed the County County prosecutor Jeff Nieman, noting that 50 other alcohol containers were found in the water.
The ten -year -old girl who died was identified as Brooklyn Caroll.
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Jennifer Stehle, 41, social worker at the West Lake school in Apex, underwent the amputation of a leg after the collision, according to the information reported by Wral.
The authorities would have tried to submit a sobriety test to Quinten Kight, but “determined that he was unable to follow the instructions”, according to the News and Observer.
The 40 -year -old man faces accusations of serious injury by driving by boat with weakened faculties, of a reckless boat, of the offense of navigation in a state of drunkenness, according to court documents.
Her 56 -year -old girlfriend, Anne Marie Flanigan, was also arrested on Tuesday for having left her the boat even intoxicated.
She faces charges of the crime of drunkenness navigation.
Quinten Kight has already been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol to New Mexico in 2009.
