A driver who allegedly killed two good Samaritans on a Connecticut<\/a> highway last September had several drinks at the Mohegan Sun<\/a> gaming property shortly before the crash, authorities recently revealed.<\/p>\n The suspect, Derion Coker, 29, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was arrested on Friday for the September 16 collision. He was charged with operating under the influence<\/a> and two counts of second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n Coker is scheduled to appear in Norwich Superior Court on June 13 after having his bail set at $200K.<\/p>\n Coker was drinking at a comedy show while at the Connecticut casino. He consumed at least three drinks of hard alcohol and two beers in the hours before the 11:24 p.m. accident in Montville, Conn., according to Connecticut State Police.<\/p>\n He texted an acquaintance that he was \u201clit\u201d and was going to have \u201cto focus super hard to get home,\u201d according to Connecticut TV station WVIT<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Coker\u2019s Volkswagen Passat was drifting and jerking while being driven in the garage at the tribal gaming property, state police reported, based on surveillance video.<\/p>\n After leaving the casino garage, Coker headed north on Route 395.\u00a0 Ahead, Tyshon Ozzie Harper, 17, and his mother, Jamie Krajewski, 33, both of Norwich, Conn. had stopped their Buick to help another motorist whose Lexus was disabled on the side of the highway and needed a jump.<\/p>\n Coker\u2019s car traveled into the righthand shoulder. It struck both the Lexus and the Buick before smashing into 50 feet of guardrail. Harper and Krajewski also were injured seriously in the collision, according to The Day<\/em>, a Connecticut news outlet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The mother and son passed away at the accident scene. Later, Coker told state police that as he came closer to the two cars, he eventually saw the people but couldn’t stop in time.<\/p>\n Coker, the driver of the Lexus, Jeremiah T. Rodriguez, and a passenger in the Lexus, Chelsey Santiago, suffered minor injuries from the crash.<\/p>\n Troopers later seized suspected marijuana from the Volkswagen, according to WVIT<\/em>.<\/p>\n Harper was in his senior year at Norwich Free Academy, a high school in Norwich, when he passed away. He was the oldest of Krajewski\u2019s five children, according to The Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n He took part in the WPTP Junior Football League where he was known by the nickname, \u201cChubby.\u201d He also enjoyed playing basketball and volleyball, along with fishing and riding dirt bikes, an obituary revealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n Krajewski was an activity coordinator at Connecticut\u2019s Elmbrook Village, a retirement community, and was a vocal fan of her son\u2019s football team.<\/p>\n The post Connecticut Motorist Was Drinking at Mohegan Sun Casino Before Deadly Crash<\/a> appeared first on Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The driver who allegedly killed two good Samaritans last September on a Connecticut highway had several drinks at the Mohegan …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motoai.net\/demos\/casino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motoai.net\/demos\/casino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motoai.net\/demos\/casino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motoai.net\/demos\/casino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motoai.net\/demos\/casino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motoai.net\/demos\/casino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motoai.net\/demos\/casino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motoai.net\/demos\/casino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motoai.net\/demos\/casino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motoai.net\/demos\/casino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Connecticut's](\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Mohegan_Sun_Resort_Casino_hero-858x529.jpg\")
Five Drinks<\/h2>\n
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