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    EAGLE, Idaho (KIVI) — What started as a joke between a father and daughter is now days away from becoming reality.

Cynthia Wilson, who has lived in Avimor for 6 years, is preparing to take on a 40-mile, 7-day trek across the Andes Mountains in Peru — reaching elevations above 17,000 feet — to raise awareness and money for prostate cancer through the Zero Peaks Challenge. The trek ends at Machu Picchu. She leaves the weekend of June 6 as part of a group of 10, accompanied by a guide and support crew.

Wilson’s fundraising minimum is $10,000, but her personal goal is $15,000 for Zero Prostate Cancer — the largest national prostate cancer awareness organization. Donations are being accepted through July 7.

The journey is all the more remarkable given what Wilson has overcome to get here. At 16, she broke her lower spine in a car accident and was told she would likely need back surgery by age 40 — the first in a series of surgeries — and that she may not be able to carry or bear a child. She has since had a son, and the bone that was once floating freely in her spine has gradually fused back together over roughly 2 decades. She has also dealt with chronic migraines, autoimmune issues, bone spurs in her knees and hips, and shoulder problems throughout her adult life.

“It’s not something I’ve ever dreamed… I thought that I could possibly do,” Wilson said.

To prepare for the trek, Wilson has been training for 6 months with personal trainer Brandon Peters, who has lived in Avimor since 2022 and is her longest-running client. Peters first met Wilson at the Avimor prostate cancer awareness walk, where she learned he was a trainer. The connection was personal for him as well — his father passed away from cancer.

Peters said the trail Wilson is taking on is considered the most physically demanding in the Andes, and that when he learned what she had signed up for, he knew the training would need to be intentional and specific.

Each session is structured to build the strength and stability Wilson will need on the trail. Sessions begin with banded work to mobilize her hips, activate her glutes and warm up her shoulders, then move into balance-based exercises including step-ups and cross-diagonal lunges designed to mimic the demands of hiking over rocks and uneven terrain. Sessions finish with core and back work to maintain postural integrity throughout the trek.

“As soon as your posture fails, then your joints start to fail too,” Peters said.

He said the training has been tailored carefully around Wilson’s history of injuries — focusing on strengthening the muscles around her knees to manage bone spurs, building shoulder stability for carrying a pack and developing hip and core strength to protect her lower back.

Peters said the progress he has seen over nearly 4 years of training together has been consistent and meaningful — improved range of motion, stronger posture, better endurance, strength, stability and balance.

“It’s just a testament to persevering and pushing, and it’s so motivating, and like, I’m inspired by her, like, honestly,” said Peters. “I haven’t told you that, but I truly am,” Peters added while looking over at Wilson.

He said Wilson’s perseverance through chronic migraines and setbacks has been a defining quality throughout their work together.

“She’ll have these times where she gets this chronic migraine, and she’s just going through it. Sometimes she has no choice but to do nothing, but she gets back on the horse, she gets back in her sessions, and she gets back to training, and she’s just been super consistent,” Peters said.

He said Wilson’s story is a positive testament.

“The body is capable of doing so much more than I think we give it credit for, as long as you’re doing the right things for it.”

“If you really put your mind to it, you take the right steps — don’t be messy about it, have a goal — you can accomplish so much more than you probably could imagine,” Peters said.

Wilson is also seeing a functional medicine doctor and chiropractor in Avimor who is performing soft wave therapy on her knees and shoulders — a treatment that uses deep-penetrating waves to break up scar tissue and stimulate the body’s natural healing response. A massage therapist who specializes in neck and shoulders and is herself an avid backpacker rounds out Wilson’s care team, focusing on the specific rotations and movements she will need on the trail. All three of her care providers live in Avimor.

“In the last 6 months that I’ve just been training for this, I would say I’ve felt the healthiest physically, but also mentally. The hiking outside in nature is huge, and being able to live in Avimor and being able to say, I don’t have time to drive somewhere to go for a hike — I’m just going to walk 5 minutes, and then I’m already on a trail.”

Wilson’s motivation is deeply personal. Her father was diagnosed with prostate cancer 17 years ago. After the cancer returned following initial treatment, doctors gave him approximately 4 years to live. He is still here. Over the years, he has served on government research advisory boards — reviewing studies before they were conducted on patients and advocating for changes that made them more viable — and has been able to access some of those treatments himself to extend his life.

Today, his cancer has spread significantly. He has already undergone multiple rounds of treatment, recently had targeted radiation on his lower spine and liver, and currently has 2 fractures in one hip caused by bone weakness from years of treatment. One chemotherapy option remains.

Despite all of that, Wilson’s father leads a monthly prostate cancer support group at Eagle Hills Church in Eagle — a group he started about 6 years ago after moving to the area and recognizing the need for local connection. Wilson’s mother runs a parallel group for partners and caregivers, meeting at the same time in a separate room.

Wilson said the trek is also a way to bring her dad along on the adventure in spirit. He will be able to track her location on the mountain in real time through a link she plans to send him.

“This could potentially be a way for him to have some excitement without having to go anywhere.”

Beyond the trek, Wilson and her father organize a prostate cancer awareness walk every September in Avimor — now in its 6th year. The event is held in the lot across from the community center and features food trucks, local vendors and entrepreneurs from the neighborhood. This year, the walk is planned for a Saturday in mid-September, and organizers hope to connect it with the farmers market across the street.

Wilson said the most important message she wants people to hear is about early detection. Prostate cancer often has no symptoms until it has already spread, but a simple PSA blood test — prostate-specific antigen — can detect rising levels before symptoms appear.

“If you go get checked and you find out you have it when it’s in like stage 0 of cancer, you treat it, and it’s no problem. But if you wait until you have the symptoms, it’s probably already metastatic, and it’s probably gonna just constantly be — we’re chasing after it,” Wilson said.

She said she has watched her father’s condition progress for nearly half her life, and still believes in hope.

“I still feel like there’s hope out there, and there’s definitely hope for all the other guys that are out there and their families, their kids, their spouses, to their grandkids, you know, to know that this doesn’t have to be something that is the end.”

Zero Prostate Cancer will be posting updates online during the trek. Wilson is also sharing training updates and the donation link on her Facebook page, where the link is pinned to the top. Donations are accepted through July 7.

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    IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — A local husband and his family are facing a situation they never imagined. He is fighting for his wife’s life while also trying to protect their unborn baby. They additionally have to relocate to another state on short notice for necessary care and have created a fundraiser for it.

Jasen, an army veteran, and Ambrosia Howell live in Idaho Falls and have been married for 10 years. Ambrosia was diagnosed with stage 4 bronchiolitis obliterans last year in Pocatello when she was just 29 years old. It’s the most severe stage and is life-threatening.

According to the American Lung Association, it’s a rare chronic lung disease that worsens over time. It leads to inflammation, irreversible damage, and scarring.

Ambrosia’s lungs are already badly scarred, and it makes it difficult for oxygen to reach her body. She has breathing problems because of it.

“I was told that I was very young to be on oxygen. This isn’t normal. Basically, be prepared for the worst-case scenario,” Ambrosia said, who is now 30.

She’s been on oxygen as an adult since 2024.

Background on her health Ambrosia has fought medical challenges since the day she was born at just 24 weeks. She weighed only 1 pound 11 ounces. She survived a collapsed lung, underwent open-heart surgery at one day old, and spent her first year in the hospital.

She didn’t walk until age 2, after finally being taken off oxygen, and relied on daily breathing treatments until she was 5.

Despite those hardships, she went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and spent four years serving the Idaho Falls community in the mental health and crisis field. She also worked with foster youth in a group home.

“She loves helping people in the community,” Jasen said about his wife.

However, in 2021, her health began to deteriorate. After months of breathing problems and hospitalizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors diagnosed her later with bronchiolitis obliterans.

“It’s been pretty difficult. I’ve had to really slow down my life. I’m not able to work right now, which is hard for me,” Ambrosia said.

Doctors also discovered her heart was under strain and diagnosed her with intermittent ectopic atrial rhythm.

She will need a double lung transplant. She was told to lose weight before she could get the lung transplant scheduled. She did lose some, however, something unexpected happened in life and has caused her to gain weight: a pregnancy, which is considered very high risk.

Pregnancy Ambrosia is currently 26 weeks pregnant with their first child. Her due date is Sept. 5. It’s a girl, and they have named her Aurora. It was an unplanned pregnancy.

Before she was pregnant, she and Jasen were seeking answers from doctors about whether they could potentially have a child after she was diagnosed with lung disease. They had tried to have one before her diagnosis, but she wasn’t getting pregnant.

They had met with a maternal-fetal medicine doctor in Idaho Falls in June 2025, who manages high-risk pregnancies, to get an opinion.

“We wanted to start a family, and then we were told it would kill her. So we stopped trying, but of course, when you stop, that’s when it happens,” Jasen said.

According to medical notes provided to EastIdahoNews.com by Jasen and Ambrosia, the doctor in Idaho Falls had advised having a lung transplant before conception and recommended waiting one to two years post-transplant before conceiving.

“Though a lung transplant would require careful planning and close monitoring with a multidisciplinary team, the risk of maternal mortality would be significantly lower with improved pulmonary function,” the doctor wrote.

When Jasen and Ambrosia found out she was pregnant in January of this year, it came as a shock.

“It was a happy surprise, but it was also a scary surprise because we weren’t sure what was going to happen,” Jasen said.

Doctors in Utah “Moving forward, I have to hope that I can survive and my baby can survive delivery,” Ambrosia said.

She has met with maternal-fetal medicine doctors at the University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City. She said she’s been told by doctors that there is a chance of her not making it through and to consider aborting the baby.

“I understand the risks. This is our first baby. I love our baby, and I think that as long as we have a great team, I think our baby deserves a chance to live,” Ambrosia said.

For her to have a shot at surviving along with her baby, she has to have an entire team in the delivery room when it comes time, she said.

“I have to have a maternal-fetal medicine doctor, a pulmonologist, a cardiologist, and an anesthesiologist all in the delivery room with me for us to live. I have to,” Ambrosia said.

Ambrosia said doctors have told her that it is likely she will deliver their baby early due to difficult breathing problems that she will experience. Aurora would be a premature baby and most likely spend time in the neonatal intensive care unit.

“Because of my condition and everything as the baby grows, which right now she is healthy, the less space my lungs have to function, eventually she is going to cut off the lung capacity that I do have,” Ambrosia said.

What experts say EastIdahoNews.com reached out to University of Utah Health to speak with doctors about Ambrosia’s care, but we were denied an interview because she is one of their patients.

Instead, we talked with experts at UW Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, who provided insight on lung disease and high-risk pregnancies.

Dr. Guang-Shing Cheng is a professor of pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

She said bronchiolitis obliterans is not a common condition.

“It’s a disease where the small airways get fibrosis that causes airflow obstruction. It’s not like asthma, but people have a really hard time breathing because basically their smaller airways are plugged up. It’s really, really hard to treat,” Cheng said.

Fibrosis is when lung tissue becomes damaged and scarred, according to the Mayo Clinic.

“Fibrosis is largely considered to be irreversible, although there are agents that can slow down the processes of lung fibrosis,” Cheng said.

The only real treatment is a lung transplant, but there are also potential complications with that.

“50 percent of people who get lung transplants get bronchiolitis obliterans at some point in their lung transplant journey. It remains a major problem. That’s the primary reason why lung transplants fail, because this can happen,” she explained.

However, for someone who has end-stage bronchiolitis obliterans, a lung transplant really is the only sort of cure.

“For some people, it’s temporary, but it definitely can prolong people’s lives,” she said.

EastIdahoNews.com asked her if a pregnant woman with bronchiolitis obliterans could pass it to the baby.

“No, the baby would not be born with bronchiolitis obliterans; it’s not that kind of disease. It’s not something you can catch,” Cheng said.

Dr. Alisa Kachikis is an assistant professor of maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Washington and helps deliver babies.

“High-risk pregnancies are any pregnancy where there’s a maternal condition or a fetal condition or a placental condition that makes the pregnancy higher risk for potentially adverse events, for either the mother or the baby,” Kachikis said.

Those pregnancies are often managed with an OB/GYN and typically a maternal-fetal medicine doctor. Kachikis said there are all sorts of conditions that can make a pregnancy high-risk and present problems potentially for the mom and for the baby.

Kachikis has seen pregnant women with lung disease before. It’s rare but more often seen at larger centers like UW Medicine. People from smaller or more rural communities in places like Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho have come to receive care.

“We’ve taken care of people with different types of lung disease and different dysfunctions of the lungs… scarring in the lungs or the lungs not working properly. We also have taken care of people with lung transplants,” Kachikis said.

She told EastIdahoNews.com that any cardiac or pulmonary condition that is not well controlled before pregnancy is not going to get better in pregnancy.

“There are a lot of changes that happen in a pregnant person’s body during pregnancy that can make it really hard for the heart and lungs to function if they’re not functioning well at baseline. So, for example, in pregnancy, the total lung volume will decrease just because the uterus is getting bigger,” Kachikis explained.

However, there is a lot of care that goes into patients with rare conditions. She said they want to make sure the mother and baby stay safe during the whole process. In some cases, aborting the baby happens, but it’s a personal decision.

“We can provide statistics, we can provide recommendations about what a pregnancy might mean, depending on different conditions, and how a pregnancy might affect the pregnant person’s risk for illness or disability. We also call that morbidity or mortality or death during pregnancy,” she said.

“Obviously, the decision to continue a pregnancy or to terminate a pregnancy is a very personal decision, and that’s made by the pregnant person and potentially her family. There are conditions where the risk seems to be too high and some pregnant people do decide to terminate the pregnancy. I think there are many different factors that can go into that,” Kachikis added.

The fundraiser A recent doctor’s appointment in Utah showed that Ambrosia will have to have appointments every two weeks, which could easily turn into every week, due to the nature of her pregnancy.

Jasen and Ambrosia are now looking to move to Utah as soon as possible. All of it has put a financial strain.

They have set up a “Give a Hand” which is similar to GoFundMe, to try and raise money for travel expenses, medical bills and unforeseen issues. There is a goal to raise $500,000. As of Tuesday morning, $330 has been raised.

“Donations allow us to focus on survival—not choosing between medical care, safe travel, or basic needs. Every contribution helps give Ambrosia the chance to breathe long enough to meet her daughter, and gives Aurora the chance to grow up with her mom,” the Give a Hand reads.

“We’re not the type of people to ask for money. I like to work for what I earn, but I just don’t know how to earn that much money in enough time,” Jasen said.

“We appreciate anything. Anything really helps, and even just support and sharing our story to get it out there because I just…I’m just trying to survive, to be able to be a mom to my baby,” said Ambrosia.

The Give a Hand reads, “Adding to this already fragile situation, Ambrosia cannot yet receive a lung transplant because of her pregnancy. Transplant medications are too dangerous for an unborn baby, meaning doctors must work to keep her stable-sometimes by the narrowest margins—until Aurora can be safely delivered.”

“This has been a lot of stress on Jasen, and I know that he lays awake at night a lot, and stresses, and I stress too, because we just want to have a happily ever after, like other people, you know?” Ambrosia said.

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    PITTSBURGH (WTAE) — Isaac Smith was sentenced to two life sentences without parole for the 2021 murders of Karli Short and her unborn child, as her family delivered emotional victim impact statements in court.

Brandon Short, Karli’s father, refused to address Smith directly, instead referring to him as a “murdering coward.”

“Having to sit in the same room with him is devastating. It’s unimaginable,” said Karli’s aunt, Phylicia Cook.

Karli Short, 26, was found shot and killed in McKeesport in 2021. She was five months pregnant at the time. Her family reiterated how excited she had been to embrace motherhood.

“That was her joy; that was her moment. You know what I mean, and it was everything to me,” Cook said.

Smith was convicted Friday of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Karli Short and her unborn child.

“Today, our family received justice. Today, the man who killed Karli and our unborn child received two life sentences without the possibility of parole,” said Brandon Short.

During the trial, DNA evidence revealed that Smith was not the father of Karli Short’s unborn baby, a fact Brandon Short described as a blessing amid the tragedy.

“My grandchild was not murdered by her father. Her father did not kill her. A murdering coward did,” Brandon Short said.

In the wake of the tragedy, Brandon Short founded the Karli Short Better Tomorrow Foundation, which provides financial support to college students affected by gun violence. He said this is how his daughter will be remembered.

“Karli will not be defined by the man who took her life. She will be defined by who she was and the work we continue to do in her name,” he said.

“That work does not stop today. Today, that work begins again with more urgency,” he added.

To date, the foundation has raised over $1 million, awarded nine scholarships, and endowed seven.

Attorneys for Smith did not comment on the sentencing but said they are exploring the next steps in the case.

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By Meghan Moriarty

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    COCOA, Fla. (WESH) — It’s been nearly two weeks since a Cocoa woman’s killing rocked Brevard County.

Jodi Cowan, 50, was mauled by two loose dogs in May.

Linda Cutler, 29, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. Her dogs are scheduled to be euthanized, but neighbors say more still needs to be done.

“We have a complete cultural meltdown where everybody’s got these big pit bulls and nobody’s taking proper care of them,” Lance, who lives in the neighborhood, said. He asked that his last name not be used because of concerns about retaliation. “It is constant that dogs are running loose, and I understand that dogs are property and the county is limited on what they can do, but a lady is dead.”

WESH 2 Investigates obtained calls for service involving Cutler’s dogs dating back to 2024. In reviewing the documents, we found more than a dozen calls made to animal control.

On Jan. 17 and Feb. 13, 2024, there were two calls regarding dog bites. As a result, Cutler was issued four citations. Later that year, in October, animal control received a call about her dogs running loose. The dogs were returned to her home.

In 2025, documents show several additional calls were made about Cutler’s dogs running loose. One call alleged the dogs killed an outdoor cat. Cutler was issued two citations and five warnings that year.

“The recourse is very difficult to get anything done because you have to call the county. Now I have to put my name on it. Now I have animosity with my neighbor,” Lance said. “Most of the people in the neighborhood don’t have money to pay these tickets. They’re just getting by, so it’s just a vicious cycle.”

This year, more calls were made. There were six in January alone. Documents show “verbal education was given.” On April 14, one of the dogs bit someone, and the victim had to go to the emergency room, according to documents.

“We can’t just go arbitrarily and seize someone’s dogs, even a dog that had, say, a one on the bite scale,” Sheriff Wayne Ivey said last week. “You know, bit somebody on the finger, whatever. That’s not a dog we are able to go seize.”

While speaking with the sheriff’s office Tuesday, a spokesperson said animal control was called to the property several times for loose dogs, but when it comes to taking someone’s animal, the law restricts how much can be done.

According to Florida law, animal control authorities can confiscate a dog in certain circumstances, including after severe attacks or deaths involving humans. State law also allows dogs involved in fatal attacks to be impounded and euthanized following the required legal process.

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    WEST MELBOURNE, Fla. (WESH) — A daycare employee was arrested following an investigation into multiple reports of battery incidents involving children at Mustard Seed Kidz Preschool, according to the West Melbourne Police Department.

Latasha Mullings, 36, is facing five counts of child abuse.

Authorities said they received a call from staff at the daycare and reviewed surveillance footage from last month.

According to police, the footage showed Mullings hitting several children, aged 2 to 4 years old, on the head with a metal stapler, flicking students in the face, and hitting children on 11 separate occasions.

Police said no other adults were present in the room during the incidents.

The involved children’s parents were notified and advised that they wished to pursue criminal charges after reviewing the surveillance footage.

The daycare reported the incident once it was brought to their attention by contacting law enforcement and the Department of Children and Families

Mullings’ employment was terminated.

Mullings was arrested and transported to the Brevard County Jail, where she was held on a $25,000 bond. She has since posted that bond.

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    HOLLISTER, California (KPIX) — Authorities on California’s Central Coast arrested two people Sunday suspected of vandalizing robots performing assessments on sidewalks last week.

According to the Hollister Police Department, officers on Thursday responded to reports of vandalism involving the robots on the 800 block of 4th Street and near West and 5th Streets. The incidents were reported by Daxbot, the company that deployed the robots as part of a city project.

During the first incident, police said surveillance footage showed a man riding a bicycle who stopped and approached the robot, before knocking the robot to its side before leaving the area.

A second incident involved another suspect approaching a robot near 4th and Line streets. The suspect appeared to strike the robot before approaching a second robot that recorded the interaction.

Police said the suspect struck the second robot and poured a liquid, believed to be beer, before leaving the area.

In a statement to CBS News Bay Area on Tuesday, police chief Carlos Reynoso confirmed two people were arrested following unrelated incidents.

On Sunday morning, 36-year-old Jesus Calderon was arrested at Dunne Park on suspicion of resisting arrest. Later that day, officers arrested 48-year-old Ryan Deanda at a Safeway store on suspicion of possessing a dagger.

Police later identified the two men as suspects in the vandalism cases.

According to the city, the robots were deployed on May 27 to “understand accessibility conditions across our pedestrian networks” and to plan future improvements. City officials stressed that the robots are completely safe, moving at walking speed and do not collect personal data or replace city jobs.

The company said the robots can measure six to seven miles of sidewalk per day, compared to two to three miles for a two-person crew.

“If you see one, feel free to take a selfie with it, but please give it space to work just like you would for City crews or field staff,” the city said on its Facebook page.

Officials said the sidewalk assessment project will take several weeks to several months to complete.

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    LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — Los Angeles County prosecutors charged a homeless man with several counts of assault after he allegedly attacked multiple UCLA students near campus dormitories last week.

Olumuyiwa Akindahunsi, 29, faces two counts of assault by means of force with great bodily injury, three counts of assault with intent to rape and one count of attempted kidnapping to commit robbery or rape.

“Incidents like these are deeply concerning, and the safety and security of our campus community remains our highest priority,” UCLA Chief of Police Craig Valenzuela said. “Our officers will continue working to help ensure UCLA remains a safe place to live, learn, work and visit.”

Officers said Akindahunsi’s alleged crime spree started at about 11:35 p.m. last Thursday when he allegedly stole a cellphone from a student while she was walking along Bruin Walk. While UCPD searched the area for Akindahunsi, officers received several reports of assault at multiple residential facilities, including De Neve Evergreen, Dykstra Hall and Cedar Hall.

Akindahunsi allegedly attacked several female victims and attempted to restrain or sexually assault them, according to UCPD. Officers said the victims were able to fight back or witnesses intervened.

UCPD said Akindahunsi’s crime spree ended at about 12:05 a.m. after he assaulted someone at Cedar Hall. A witness jumped in to help the victim and chased Akindahunsi out of the building, according to police. The witness then helped officers locate Akindahunsi near Parking Structure 8, which is near the police department.

Officers said they found zip ties, duct tape and paracord on Akindahunsi.

UCPD said it increased patrols after the alleged assaults. Officers urged witnesses to report suspicious activity to UCPD (310) 825-1491.

Community Service Officer (CSO) Evening Escort Program provides free walking escorts between campus, nearby residential areas and Westwood Village from dusk until 1 a.m., 365 days a year, according to UCPD.

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    HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado (KCNC) — A man already driving with a suspended license from a DUI is now accused of intentionally plowing into three people on a sidewalk in Colorado.

This happened near the intersection of East Wildcat Reserve Parkway and Willowbridge Way in Highlands Ranch around 10:30 a.m. Monday.

Witnesses say that after the crash, the driver made a U-turn, went back to the scene, slowly drove past the wreckage, then left. That allowed another witness to follow him 5.5 miles down to Daniels Park, where just 15 minutes later, 28-year-old Adam Bauserman was taken into custody.

Bauserman’s demeanor was described by deputies as “unusually quiet.” At one point, he apparently asked, “Do you know if I killed the man?”

As it would turn out, the man survived, but his girlfriend did not. Flowers are piling up at the scene of a morning walk that turned deadly.

Right now, investigators don’t believe the driver knew any of those victims.

“You expect to be safe when you’re walking on the sidewalk,” said neighbor Beth Chitel, who lived just yards from the crash site until she moved last month. “These are very highly trafficked pathways around here; it could have happened to any of our friends, any of our neighbors, any of our children.”

“This was a horrific scene,” said Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly.

Thirty-five-year-old Corrine More died in the crash. Her sister tells CBS Colorado she lived in the neighborhood and was out on a walk with her boyfriend. She describes Corrine as a nursing student with a big heart who was loved by everyone who knew her, and who was beautiful inside and out.

Corrine’s boyfriend, 30-year-old Kyle Vasey, was seriously injured. He has undergone multiple surgeries and was described by a doctor in the affidavit as being at substantial risk for permanent disfigurement or death.

The other victim is 72-year-old Dianne Windes. The sheriff says she was walking in the opposite direction from the couple. She was also hospitalized with serious injuries.

Witnesses believe the driver who crashed into the three pedestrians did so on purpose.

“If we can prove that, we’ll certainly do that, but at this point we have no indication of that,” Weekly said.

It was thanks to a witness who followed that truck that deputies arrested Bauserman, who was driving with a revoked license after a DUI last year.

“Mr. Bauserman has had several revocations and suspensions of his license over the last 10 years,” Weekly said. “He should never have been on the roadway, and as a result of that, somebody is now deceased.”

Deputies did not detect immediate signs of intoxication but are waiting on blood test results.

Right now, investigators believe Bauserman was only traveling 3 mph over the speed limit, at about 48 mph in a 45 mph zone. That will need to be confirmed in the investigation.

“He should never have been on the roadway, period. And so, the fact that somebody in our community has been lost in such a tragic, horrible way. How many lives have been destroyed by this selfish act?” Weekly asked.

“I want to express my sympathies to the families, and yeah, we’re here to support you as a community, and we’re by your side,” said Chitel.

Neighbor Beth Chitel started an online fundraiser for the victims.

“The last thing that the family should be having to worry about right now is the bills that are coming,” said Chitel.

The sheriff says that 15 to 20 community members stepped up to help in the aftermath of this tragedy.

Chitel says the community has been hurt by other recent tragedies, like the death of 13-year-old Alex Mackiewicz, who was hit while in the crosswalk on his way to school. That fatal crash happened just over a mile away from this one.

“Something really needs to be done. The community is well aware of the safety issues posed there, of course. Again, we don’t expect them on the sidewalk,” said Chitel. “We need more crosswalks; we could use more stoplights. We need more safety measures put in place because, in general, it’s really not a safe road. People speed on it.”

“It’s absolutely horrible. As the sheriff, I have done a lot to increase traffic enforcement. We’ve almost doubled the size of our traffic unit. I expect my folks to be out there and be productive and ensure the safety of our citizens. These tragedies, certainly back to back, are heartbreaking for everybody involved, it shouldn’t happen,” Weekly said.

Three families are forever changed, a community is left with questions, and the investigation is just beginning.

“We need to make sure that we do our job well, and that we get justice for all these victims,” Weekly said.

Bauserman is being held on charges including vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

Preliminary charges Bauserman is facing include the following seven felonies and one misdemeanor:

Vehicular homicide Failure to remain at the scene of an accident involving death Failure to remain at the scene of an accident involving serious bodily injury (two counts) Vehicular assault (two counts) Assault in the second degree – crimes to at-risk persons Driving a motor vehicle with a license is under restraint (express consent refusal/DUI conviction)

These charges could change based on the results of the blood tests and additional information that is garnered through the investigation.

A judge set Bauserman’s bond at $100,000.

As the investigation continues, the sheriff’s office says anyone with additional information is encouraged to contact Detective Pereira at bpereira@dcsheriff.net or call (303) 660-7537.

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