Photo: Go Fund Me
Three young Idaho sisters were killed early Saturday when a man who allegedly told police he’d been drinking heavily all afternoon slammed his pickup truck into the small sedan their father was driving, police say.
The suspect, Matthew Park, 46, of Fairfield, allegedly plowed into the sedan from behind at a high rate of speed, say police.
All three children were all strapped into their car seats when their sedan was struck from behind, the sheriff’s office says.
Matthew Park, 46, of Idaho.Blaine County Sheriff’s Office
Park appeared uninjured and declined medical assistance, the sheriff’s office says.
Park was arrested on charges of two counts of felony aggravated driving under the influence and three counts of felony vehicular manslaughter.
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He was transported to the Blaine County Detention Center where he remains in custody on $400,000 bond.
He has one prior DUI, from Park City, Utah in 2014, the outlet reports.
He did not enter a plea and is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 22. His attorney did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
The girls’ loved ones are reeling from the devastating loss.
In a heart wrenching post on aGoFundMepage she started, the girls’ aunt, Amanda Lurak, wrote that her brother “broke his neck, his fiancee has a broken arm. His precious angles did not make it.”
“They were there one minute and gone the next…” Lurak wrote. “My heart is broken.”
Her fun-loving nieces “were taken to soon,” she wrote. “Now I’ll have to live without them running at me with open arms screaming ‘Auntie’ and my children will have to grow up without them.”
source: people.com
