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Amandria Brunner, 41, of West Allis, faces two counts of
homicide by an intoxicated use of a vehicle while having a prior
intoxicant-related conviction She faces up to 80 years in prison
if convicted of both counts.
According to a criminal complaint, the crash happened on Friday
in Milwaukee when Brunner tried to turn left in front of an SUV
that was taking six Marquette men's lacrosse players to a thrift
store. Scott Michaud, a 19-year-old sophomore goalie and
biomedical sciences major from Springboro, Ohio, and 20-year-old
Noah Snyder, a sophomore attackman and business student from
Irving, New York, were pronounced dead at the scene.
A witness told police that she helped Brunner out of her pickup
truck and noticed Brunner smelled of alcohol and kept trying to
put gum in her mouth. Police also found an open beer can in her
truck, according to the criminal complaint.
Brunner's blood, which was drawn about two hours after the
crash, had a blood alcohol content of 0.133, which exceeds the
state's legal limit to drive of 0.08.
An analysis of the crash recorder in Brunner's truck found that
she had been stopped for about three seconds before she pulled
into the intersection with the accelerator depressed almost all
the way to the floor, according to the complaint. She was
traveling just under 12 mph (19 kph) when she struck the SUV,
and she never braked.
Brunner was convicted of operating while intoxicated in November
2003, the complaint says.
Online court records indicated Brunner was in custody in the
Milwaukee County Jail on Wednesday. Records did not list an
attorney for her.
Michaud and Snyder were named to the Big East's all-academic
team last year for maintaining grade-point averages of at least
3.0. Snyder played in 13 of Marquette’s 14 games last season,
making three starts in the midfield and collecting nine goals
and seven assists.
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