16-Year-Old Charged As Adult In Roy Traffic Deaths; Police Call Collision Intentional Act

Gardner, 16. charged as an adult in the traffic deaths of 20-year-old Madison Haan, of West Point and 19-year-old Tyler Christianson, of Ogden. Photo: Facebook

WEBER COUNTY, Utah, July 1, 2016 (Gephardt Daily) — A 16-year-old girl has been charged as an adult in the deaths of two people killed early Thursday morning in a rear-end collision in Roy.

Police are calling the deadly incident an intentional act.

According to an arrest warrant filed in Ogden’s 2nd District Court, Marilee Patricia Gardner, age 16, stole a car from her family’s home in Layton at about midnight Friday with plans to take drugs and commit suicide with a teenage friend.

Moments later, Gardner was seen driving a Chevy Tahoe northbound near 2300 N. 2000 West in Clinton, with a trash can dragging behind the car.

A Clinton City police officer attempted to pull Gardner over, but she continued to drive into Roy, where she slammed into the back of a Hyundai Accent at 6000 South and 3500 West.

The occupants of Hyundai, 20-year-old Madison Haan, of West Point, and 19-year-old Tyler Christianson, of Ogden, were killed in the crash.

The arrest warrants says that after the collision, Gardner ran into nearby Winco food store where she called her father and told him “she was in a crash in Roy city and she might have hurt someone.”

Gardner was taken into custody at 1:46 a.m., and upon waving her Miranda rights told a Roy Police detective she was “on her way to a Winegar’s in Roy city to meet a 17-year-old friend” where she planned on “purchasing drugs, taking the drugs, then crashing her mother’s car with both of them inside in an attempt to kill themselves.”

The arrest warrant goes on to say Gardner had a troubled past and had attempted to run away on multiple occasions.

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