A third person has died as a result of last week's tragic hit-and-run at South By Southwest (SXSW).
Sandy Thuy Le, 26, was pronounced dead Sunday night after being struck by a car on Thursday morning. Dallas News reports that Le was a Mississippi native who moved to Austin to go to school. She had been hospitalised at University Medical Centre Brackenridge in critical condition since the incident.
Aspiring rapper Rashad Charjuan Owens, the 21-year-old driving the car, has already been charged with two counts of capital murder and multiple counts of aggravated assault. A spokesperson for the Austin Police Department said it would be up to the Travis County Grand Jury to determine if a third count of capital murder will be added to the charges.
Austin Chief of Police Art Acevedo has previously made it clear that he believes Owens' actions were "intentional".
"We do these events very well," Acevedo said, "but you cannot stop a person who decides, rather than face potential drunk driving charges, to continue at a high rate of speed, go around a uniformed officer forcing him to run out of the way, then at a high rate of speed show total disregard for the sanctity of human life."
[via Rolling Stone]
