OSU remembers 2015 Homecoming crash, mourns with WI Christmas parade tragedy

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STILLWATER, Okla. — Six years aft a deadly clang during a parade impacted their community, the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association says it is mourning alongside Waukesha, Wisconsin.

On Oct. 24, 2015, OSU was hosting its yearly Sea of Orange parade successful grant of Homecoming play earlier the Cowboys took connected the Kansas Jayhawks. Close to erstwhile the parade was acceptable to end, 25-year-old Adacia Chambers drove her car into respective barriers. She past continued to thrust done the parade wherever she deed dozens and killed 4 people.

Chambers was arrested connected dozens of charges, including second-degree execution and battle and battery. She has since been sentenced to beingness successful prison.

Years later, the Stillwater assemblage remembers what happened that fateful time erstwhile quality came retired of Wisconsin erstwhile idiosyncratic drove done an ongoing Christmas parade implicit the weekend. Right now, officials person confirmed 5 radical person died and implicit 40 radical person been injured from the incident.

OSU's Alumni Association sent retired a connection connected Facebook successful solidarity with Waukesha that reads:

The #CowboyFamily has been touched by senseless calamity before, and we widen our sympathies to everyone successful Waukesha, Wisconsin. We commune for those who mislaid loved ones and for the betterment of those injured successful tonight’s vacation parade.

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