On April 27, 2003, a girl was killed on the night of her senior prom. It wasn’t by anything she or her friends had done.
The incident is perhaps most horrifying in its driest description: A drunk driver doing 80 in a 45 ran a red light. The impact split a car full of teenagers in half. The driver, a Bosnian citizen, then fled the country and wasn’t brought back to the United States until two years later.
In 2005, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for vehicular homicide.