Metlakatla woman fatally struck 3-year-old son, brother with SUV, police say

A Metlakatla lady is in custody on homicide costs, after native police say she killed her 3-year-old son and her grownup brother final month by driving into them after an alcohol-fueled social gathering.

Twenty-seven-year-old Alecia Henderson faces a number of costs together with two counts every of second-degree homicide and manslaughter. She was arrested Tuesday on a warrant in Metlakatla.

The fees stem from an April 22 social gathering within the Southeast Alaska group, the place native police say Henderson was ingesting with a number of others. Her younger son, the boy’s father, and different grownup relations had been additionally there.

Folks on the social gathering instructed police that Henderson grew to become upset along with her brother, 24-year-old James Henderson, when he took away the keys of her borrowed Nissan Pathfinder, and she or he allegedly took a swing at him. The boy’s father stated she yelled at him by telephone when he referred to as to examine on her.

Round 1:30 a.m., the boy, his father and Henderson’s brother had been reportedly strolling residence from the social gathering when Henderson allegedly drove a white Nissan Pathfinder SUV into the three of them. Police say surveillance video from a close-by college exhibits the Pathfinder turning its lights off and accelerating earlier than affect.

James Henderson was taken to a neighborhood clinic and pronounced lifeless. The boy died the next night after he was medevaced to Anchorage for his accidents. The boy’s father was additionally wounded however survived.

Henderson initially denied being behind the wheel however later admitted to pondering she had hit a automotive as an alternative, based on a recorded telephone name monitored by Alaska State Troopers.

Henderson was convicted of DUI in March of final yr. A couple of decade in the past, she was convicted of a misdemeanor assault cost. Henderson’s bail has been set at $250,000. Her first courtroom look was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

An lawyer for Henderson has not but been assigned.