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Man Faces Even More Charges After Hitting Children
Courts have decided to file additional charges against a man who is accused of striking and killing two children with his car as they walked home from school.
Last week, David Michael Bell, 24, appeared in court to officially hear the two counts of murder that he is facing. This week, on Monday, prosecutors decided to add new charges against Bell. He is now also facing 10 counts of assault with a deadly weapon to account for the other ten children that were injured in the accident.
Bell is being held at the Solano County jail where he is reportedly in a state of distress. He is on suicide watch by doctors who have declared him a risk.
Investigations have determined that Bell was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the accident.
Bell has been diagnosed mentally handicapped since birth. He has been a member at a county-funded apartment for mentally ill people for many years.
He is now in court facing charges of murder in the deaths of Ana Laura Cardenas, 9, and her brother, Luis Cardenas, 7.
According to police records, Bell was driving at speeds as high as 70 mps in a school zone on Wednesday prior to the crash. He was attempting to pass a line of stopped cars using the right shoulder but did not see a parked car.
Bell hit the parked car and sent it onto a nearby sidewalk and into the group of children that were just getting out of school at Eugene Padan Elementary.
Names of the other victims have not been released but four of them have already been released from the hospital. The condition of the other six victims has still not been announced.