What's this? This is an unbiased just-the-facts news timeline ('newsline') about Adacia Chambers, created by Newslines contributors. Become a contributor

Adacia Chambers

Adacia Chambers5 posts

On October 24, 2105, Adacia Chambers drove her car into a crowd at the OSU homecoming parade, killing four people and injuring over 40 more. She is charged with multiple counts of second-degree murder.

Latest News view > Click for Biography view
26 Oct, 2015

$1 million bond

Bail hearing0 Comments

Chambers is held on a $1 million bond on suspicion of second-degree murder and driving under the influence. She hasn’t been formally charged with the four second-degree murder counts. A prosecutor says that she “intentionally drove her car into a crowd” and that she is was a “flight risk” because she faces the possibility of four life terms. According to a probable cause affidavit Chambers told investigators she had a history of suicide attempts and was suicidal at the time of the event. Chamber’s father says there’s “no way” he would be able to post her $1 million bond.

Family defends

Makes Statement0 Comments

Chambers’ father defends her.

Adacia is a kind, loving, caring person, and she wouldn’t have done this purposefully…I’m not going to believe that [she was under the influence of drugs or alcohol] until they show me proof. I know the little girl I raised wouldn’t have done something like this intentionally. I raised my kids to be Christian people and to keep family and God close to their heart. Our hearts go out to those victims. It is a terrible, terrible thing that this happened. I wouldn’t wish this upon anybody. And I can’t undo it

Her aunt:

This is not her character. She’s one that’ll give you big hug, and she’s one that if you’re down she’ll make you smile. That’s my Adacia. We don’t know what happened.

Live-in boyfriend, Jesse Gaylord says Chambers had trouble sleeping.

For her to purposefully go and do something like that would just not be possible. She’s one of the kindest, [most] soft-spoken people you’ll ever meet…There’s no way she was drunk or impaired. She’s just not that kind of person…She’s honestly one of the most cautious drivers that I’ve ever ridden with. She doesn’t run yellow lights.

25 Oct, 2015

Lawyer: May have mental illness

Makes Statement0 Comments

Chambers’ attorney says she may be suffering from a mental illness, saying that there were warning signs from her behavior before the crash, including an inability to sleep. He also says that she did not smell of alcohol when he met her hours after the crash, and that that he had spoken to her aunt, grandmother and boyfriend and all had said she was not drinking. He says Chambers only recalls people removing her from the car and being extremely confused. Police are waiting on the result of blood tests.

I absolutely can rule out alcohol…She doesn’t remember a whole lot about what happened. There was a period where I think … she could have even blacked out.

24 Oct, 2015

Four killed, 47 injured in car crash

Car Crash0 Comments

Chambers’ Hyundai Elantra saloon strikes an unoccupied motorcycle of an officer who was working security at OSU’s homecoming parade, then goes into the crowd, killing four people, including a two-year-old boy, and injuring over 40 more. Many of the injured are schoolchildren. Chambers is arrested at the scene, for driving under the influence.