Charges filed against teen after 6 cyclists hurt in TX crash

District attorneys successful Waller County, Texas, filed six charges connected Monday against a 16-year-old successful transportation with a September car clang successful the Houston country that injured six bicyclists.

The bureau for Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis said successful a Facebook station that it had filed six charges of aggravated battle with a deadly limb against the 16-year-old lad who was driving astatine the clip of the accident.

Mathis' bureau said that the teen turned himself successful Monday and volition beryllium held successful custody until further orders from the juvenile court.

The Houston Chronicle, KTRK-TV and KPRC-TV study that six cyclists were wounded successful a Sept. 25 crash conscionable northwest of Houston, Texas. Four of the cyclists had to beryllium hospitalized, 2 of whom had to beryllium airlifted due to the fact that of the severity of their injuries.

Cyclist Chase Ferrell says helium was riding down the radical of six cyclists who were injured successful the crash. He's told aggregate media outlets that the teenaged fishy caused the clang portion trying to "roll coal," oregon stroke exhaust connected cyclists arsenic a means of intimidation.

"The kid connected the country was asking america if we thought helium was going to jail," Ferrell told KTRK. "I said, 'Yeah. You messed up.' He was intelligibly sorry. Even successful his mind, his archetypal absorption was helium thought helium was going to jail."

Local media outlets study that the teen operator was allowed to permission the country pursuing the crash. The lawsuit prompted outrage successful Houston's cycling community.

In its Facebook station connected Monday, Mathis' bureau thanked the nationalist for their patience successful filing charges.

"We precise overmuch admit the patience of the victims and their attorneys arsenic we person attempted to reconstruct the events, and to measure and stitchery the grounds that was not obtained that day," the District Attorney of Waller County's Facebook update read.