On Apr 20, 10:40*pm, "Basil Karlo"
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On Apr 20, 10:25 pm, Liberal Deceit wrote:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/6381800.html

A 32-year-old Houston man was charged Sunday with four counts of
intoxication manslaughter after he veered into a water-filled ditch
Saturday, drowning five children who were passengers in the car.

Chanton Jenkins could face 80 years in prison if convicted on all the
charges. Each carries a two- to 20-year sentence and a fine of up to
$10,000, said Harris County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Donna
Hawkins.

Meanwhile, authorities continued to search the banks of Greens Bayou
Sunday for the body of the fifth victim, 4-year-old Hallie Jenkins.

“The waiting is just horrible,” said Valerie Jones, a cousin of the
victims.

The search, suspended as night fell, is expected to resume at 8 a.m.
today.

Jenkins was talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone when he veered
off
the road in the 2200 block of Greens Road during heavy storms Saturday..

“It was a freak accident. He was talking and said ‘dang!’ and then I
assumed he dropped the phone,” said Tracy Easley, who was the mother of
victims Hallie and Karrinton.

Jenkins, his adult brother and 10-year-old Jada Barnes managed to
scramble
out of the 2000 Lincoln LS after the vehicle crashed down an embankment
and ended up submerged in about 9 feet of water. Jada was recovering from
minor scrapes and bruises Sunday.

The bodies of three boys — 4-year-old Devin Jenkins, 7-year-old Malik
Barlow and 11-year-old Dreyton Thompson — were recovered from the Lincoln
sedan early Sunday morning by Houston Police Department dive team
members.

About mid-day, searchers found the body of 1-year-old Karrinton a half
mile from the crash.

Criminal record
Officials said Chanton Jenkins failed a field sobriety test at the scene.
They did not release the results of a blood test.

Jenkins, the father of at least three of the deceased children, has a
criminal record in Harris County dating back to 1994. Most recently he
was
sentenced to 10 months in jail on drug-related charges.

The two men were cooperating with police, said Houston police spokesman
Kese Smith.

Family members remembered the children as sweet and fun-loving.

Easley described Karrinton as “the boss of the family.”

“She was the baby in the family and she ran everything. Hallie was the
princess. She was the little diva,” Easley said. “She was prissy and she
always walked on her tiptoes.”

Devin was a little pistol who liked to challenge everything he was told,
Easley said.

Brothers Malik and Dreyton played football and basketball and
participated
on a step team that their 24-year-old uncle Travis Campbell helped
organize.

“If you knew them, you would have just fallen in love with them,” said
Malik’s godmother Tywanna Harris.

The two were inseparable.

“If Dreyton had a chance to get out of that car, I bet he thought, not
without my brother. That was just his mentality,” said the boys’ aunt,
Sonya Diamond.

‘I knew,’ mother says
The scene of the accident was marked with yellow police tape Sunday.
Relatives stood on a bridge overlooking the scene while they silently
watched officials trudging through the bayou.

Well-wishers left balloons, stuffed animals and yellow roses nearby.
Pieces of a smashed street sign littered the embankment where Jenkins
careened into the water.

Easley said that when she lost contact with Jenkins Saturday evening she
felt a pang of fear and rushed to the area where she thought he had been
driving.

Police officers at the bayou held her back from the scene.

“I knew,” she said, wiping her eyes.

Only a winger would try to spin this story for political gain.

Man...are you going to burn in Hell.

Be sure to pack marshmallows and Vaseline.

TMT

Would that be Obama hell? *We're already burning in it.

LOL...better get used to it...you got eight years of it to bask in.

TMT