The driver in a fatal accident that took two lives, including her five-week-old child, in Monroe Monday night, has been arrested. Monroe Police Sgt. Mike Fendall says officers responded to a theft at a Walmart and it turned into a high-speed chase, which ended in a crash. When officers arrived at the scene, they found one passenger critically injured.
“The suspect, Candace Gill, she was at the scene also getting out of the vehicle, attending to the five-week-old child, who was severely injured as well, the child later passed away at the hospital,” said Fendall.
While police tended to the injured, Candace Gill took off, leaving the scene on foot, abandoning her child in the process.
Just before 11 pm on Tuesday, Monroe Police received a tip on Gill’s location. Officers headed to an apartment complex in West Monroe where Gill was arrested without incident.
“She was booked into the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center on several charges, including two counts of manslaughter and several counts of negligent injuring,” said Fendall.
The adult passenger who died at the scene has not yet been identified but is believed to have been Gill’s boyfriend. This isn’t the 38-year-old Gill’s first brush with the law, said Sgt. Fendall, but it has become the most tragic, with two lives now lost.
In a sadly ironic, twist. Gill is accused of stealing items for the child, setting the tragic chain of events in motion.
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