Suicide Attempt Kills Woman

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15349057/from/ET/?GT1=8618

ATLANTA - A lovesick 16-year-old girl crashed her car into an oncoming vehicle in a suicide attempt, counting down the moments before impact in text messages sent to the female classmate who spurned her, authorities say. The girl survived; a woman in the other car was killed.

The teenager, Louise Egan Brunstad, was charged Thursday with murder in the Oct. 4 wreck.

“There was what might be described as a countdown to the actual event — 10, 9, 8 ... then the crash,” District Attorney Paul Howard said.

Howard said it was unclear whether the classmate the messages were intended for responded to them or even read them, either as they were sent or afterward.

Authorities said Brunstad rammed her family’s Mercedes-Benz head-on into a smaller car driven by 30-year-old Nancy Salado-Mayo, a mother of three. Salado-Mayo was killed, and her 6-year-old daughter Lesly, who was in a child safety seat, suffered broken ribs and other injuries.

Brunstad, who was treated for an ankle injury, had told friends she planned to kill herself after another female student at Holy Innocents Episcopal School refused to have sex with her, Howard said.

Witnesses told police the girl never slowed as she crossed over a turning lane and into oncoming traffic on busy Roswell Road in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood on Oct. 4.

“She was traveling at a high rate of speed,” Howard said. “This is an intentional action.”

Student to be tried as an adult
Prosecutors said they intend to try her as an adult. If convicted, she faces an automatic life sentence.

The girl’s attorney, Drew Findling, declined to discuss the allegations but expressed the family’s sadness over the accident.

“This young lady and her parents are devastated by this horrible accident and by the death of Mrs. Salado-Mayo and the injuries of her daughter,” Findling said. “They are praying for the quick and healthy recovery of her daughter and for the well-being of her husband and other children.”

After a memorial service in Atlanta, Salado-Mayo’s body was returned to her native Mexico for burial. Her husband, Mario Bibiano, a steelworker, was unable to attend because he remained by his daughter’s bedside at an Atlanta hospital.

Brunstad was on crutches in court Thursday for a brief hearing. Her lawyer said she was released on bail Friday. Howard said the terms of her bail require her to enter a mental health facility and wear an electronic monitor around her ankle to prevent her from running away.

EDIT:

Yes, this thread has a bad title. Apologies.

*Sighs.*

I just realized the poor wording of this thread title.

Well, it was a failed suicide, but I'm sure her life is over. This is a good example of how overly-dramatic kids are today. They think the world is all about them.

Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
Well, it was a failed suicide, but I'm sure her life is over. This is a good example of how overly-dramatic kids are today. They think the world is all about them.

Another reason not to pursue homosexuality.

Wow, what idiocy.....I mean, god...can't people even kill themselves correctly anymore?

Well, I would say a great argument for legalization of suicide, eh?

Originally posted by lord xyz
It's also an example of retarded suicidal teenagers. Whatever happened to a good old fashion tying a rope to a boulder and yourself, then throwing the boulder into a lake or river?

Lack of boulders? Droughts so there's no water? Better technology these days? Personally, I'd just go with the old fashioned hanging.

Originally posted by sithsaber408
Another reason not to pursue homosexuality.

Originally posted by sithsaber408
Another reason not to pursue homosexuality.

😆

Originally posted by sithsaber408
Another reason not to pursue homosexuality.

I assume you're joking.

However, if people didn't think so poorly of it, this self-centered, overly dramatic chick wouldn't feel she has to take things to such an extreme. But maybe this situation meant that she was going to be outed. Or maybe the other chick was gay, but didn't have feelings for this particular girl.

Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
I assume you're joking.

Originally posted by Darth Macabre
Lack of boulders? Droughts so there's no water? Better technology these days? Personally, I'd just go with the old fashioned hanging. This has nothing to do with her being a lesbian or bi. She was a sick and twisted individual that couldn't think of anything better to do then to try and kill herself. If the girl was straight would you have said: "Another reason not to pursue heterosexuality"?

Originally posted by sithsaber408
Another reason not to pursue homosexuality.

By that reasoning, had the object of her affection been a Christian, it would be a reason not to pursue Christianity. 🙄

If this generation is the future, I fear for the world...

and to sithsaber408: Eh?!

This is the first time I actually felt sorry for someone I read about in the news. ****ing suicidal bitches. What a ****ing failure, can't even kill herself right.

People need sex in the wide open. Make it f*cking legal!

Damn drama queens can't even kill themselves without hurting someone else?

Seriously, who tries to kill themselves by being in a car accident? Surely the idea of (gasp!) another person's life in danger must have come to mind.

what a hoe bag...nice sig beowulf ✅..good username too 😛

Originally posted by a1hsauce
what a hoe bag...nice sig beowulf ✅..good username too 😛

Thank you sir 😛

Your sig is quite attractive also 😎

Originally posted by sithsaber408
Another reason not to pursue homosexuality.

or be corrupted by christian women...or come from a rich family...or drive a mercedese...

oh screw it, since we're just blowing irrelevant nonsense out our asses:

GO DUBYA!!!

Brunstad, who was treated for an ankle injury, had told friends she planned to kill herself after another female student at Holy Innocents Episcopal School refused to have sex with her, Howard said.

Should have just come down my way naughty

Stupid ****ing idiot. 😐

That girl deserves whatever punishments she gets and more, selfish ***** if you want to kill yourself do so without ****ing hurting other people. This is even worse then drunk driving and I hate drunk drivers, she should be taken out and shot or something....