Friday, March 14, 2014

Rashad Charjuan Owens Rampage Intentionally Mows Down Texas SXSW Crowd

Rashad Charjuan Owens Rampage Intentionally Mows Down Texas Crowd ---   ===

4 killed 21 injured in deliberate attack March 13, 2014  Rashad Charjuan Owens Rampage Mows Down Texas Crowd 21-year-old aspiring rapper and father of six from Killeen, was charged Friday with one count of capital murder. He was scheduled to peform as a rapper but after being stopped at a DWI checkpoint, he sped away in his stolen car, almost hitting a police officer, then went the wrong way on Ninth Street, plowed through a barricade on Red River Street, and hit the people in the crowd. He also struck a taxi and drove onto a curb and into a parking lot before hitting a van, then the jumped out and ran. “This is an individual that committed an intentional act,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said His cover story he told authorities was he’d lost control, and “drove off because he didn’t know he had to call police.”

Owens was driving drunk and fleeing police when he drove a stolen car through a crowd of festival goers on Red River Street. Jamie West, 27, and Steven Craenmehr, 35, died at the scene. Deandre Tatum, 18, and Sandy Le, 26, died in the days that followed.  On September 24, 2015, Owens pleaded not guilty to capital murder and four counts of murder. His trial started Nov 2, 2015. Prosecutors previously said they will not seek the death penalty in the case against Owens

Criminal history:
  • In September 2010, Owens was arrested in Texas by the Killeen Independent School District police for criminal trespassing. He pleaded guilty and was convicted in October 2010. 
  • Pleaded guilty to DUI in 2011 case
  • Pleaded guilty in November 2011 to intoxicated driving after a hit-and-run incident in Alaska.  DWI and leaving the scene of an accident after an incident Oct. 17, 2011, in Fairbanks. The prosecution dismissed the second charge at the time.
  • Arrested in Bell County, Texas in 2012. 
suspect



Sandy Le (Facebook)


War crime victim Jamie West, 27



War crime victim: Dutch musician Steven Craenmehr, 35

Reference
  • Daily Mail Fatal South by Southwest crash brings lawsuits Dec 18, 2014 Owens gunned his gray Honda Civic through a barricade after an officer on a drunken-driving patrol tried stopping the car in Austin's crowded entertainment district. His blood alcohol level was .114, above Texas' legal driving limit of .08, according to police. The organizers say more than 350,000 people were drawn to the festival this year
  • Heavy Rashad Charjuan Owens Mar 13, 2014 - Rashad Charjuan Owens, 21, was named by the Austin Statesmen in Texas as the suspect in the fatal DWI crash that killed two people
  • NStix: “Aspiring Rapper” Rashad Charjuan Owens Now Guilty of Mass Murder in Austin: Sandy Thuy Le, 26, Succumbs to Her Wounds
  • Wikipedia South by Southwest  Wikipedia On March 13, 2014, a drunk driver, Rashad Charjuan Owens, drove his car into a crowd of festival attendees while trying to evade a traffic stop. 
*Tags:
  • Asian Victim Christian: according to his grandmother, Rashad was raised in a "good, Christian home". Interestingly, "Rashad" is an Arabic name which means "thinker" or "counselor"...
  • Jihad Free Republic  Sounds like “Sudden Jihad Syndrome” to me.
  • Rashad: Rashad" is an Arabic name which means "thinker" or "counselor"...
  • Vehicle Incident
tags:  rampage, dui, previous arrest, school incident, musician victim, musician suspect, cover story, music incident, black suspect, police chase, not terrorist attack, stolen car, works at subway, lost control, hit and run, driving while terrorist, , mass murder, war criminal


Sources:


November 2, 2015 Murder Trial Starts in South By Southwest Fatal Crash Case  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS trial got underway for Rashad Owens, 23, of Killeen, who is facing multiple murder charges in the fatal collision. Owens could be sentenced to up to life in prison if convicted of the most serious capital murder charge. He's also charged with lesser counts of murder and 24 counts of aggravated assault. see 4 killed 21 injured in deliberate attack March 13, 2014  Rashad Charjuan Owens Rampage Mows Down Texas Crowd

Witness describes being hit by car during 2014 SXSW
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Nov 1. 2015 Rashad Owens trial to begin Monday - KVUE KVUE19  A jury will begin hearing the case of the man accused of driving through a crowd at the 2014 SXSW Music Festival Monday.

Rashad Owens' capital murder trial begins Monday | www ...
www.mystatesman.com/news/news/crime.../rashad-owens.../npDD7/
Oct 31, 2015 Rashad Owens came to Austin in March 2014, and like dozens of other young rappers and hip-hop artists who flooded the South by Southwest Music Festival ...

October 26, 2015 Jury Selection begins in Rashad Owens trial - Story | KTBC
www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/39491409-story
7 days ago - A jury has been selected for the murder trial of Rashad Owens. He's accused of running down a crowd of SXSW festival-goers last year. Monday afternoon,

Rashad Owens pleads not guilty to murder in 2014 SXSW Crash
KVUE 4:35 p.m. CDT September 24, 2015 The man accused of killing four people and injuring more than 20 others in a drunk driving crash at the 2014 South by Southwest Festival pleaded not guilty to capital murder and four counts of murder Thursday.  Rashad Owens, 24, entered his plea during a brief hearing Thursday in Travis County District Court.

DAILY NEWS MAY 11, 2015 ...• Rashad Owens made a brief stop in Travis County’s 147th Criminal District Court on Friday, saying nothing as Judge Cliff Brown set plans for another pretrial hearing on June 15. He said he doesn’t have a date set for the beginning of the trial, but unofficially eyes the first weekend of November for its commencement..."

The Legal Trail

NEWS STORY MARCH 12, 2015, "...Like many other dates in the year since he was arrested for driving his gray Honda Civic through a crowd of people on Red River Street, killing four and injuring 20 more, Rashad Owens' March 2 court date only served to precede another one next month. District Judge Cliff Brown said at a February hearing that he'd like to try the 22-year-old K


March 2, 2015 Hearing for Killeen murder suspect postponed Courtney Griffin | Herald staff writer Rashad Charjuan Owens’ status hearing in Austin was pushed back another week. He is scheduled to appear in state Judge Cliff Brown’s 147th District Court at 9 a.m. March 2


DAILY MUSIC FEBRUARY 9, 2015 the venue made national news when media outlets including Billboard Magazine and Huffington Post reported that Rashad Owens had been scheduled to perform there at a rap showcase before his deadly SXSW hit-and-run..."

Playback – 2014: DECEMBER 23, 2014, BY KEVIN CURTIN "...No festival made more headlines than South by Southwest 2014. When 21-year-old Rashad Owens sped a Honda Civic from police through a barricade on Red River and into pedestrians, four died and 22 others were hurt..."


Headlines NEWS STORY JULY 10, 2014 "...› The court date for Rashad Owens was reset during a hearing Tuesday morning. Owens, accused of killing four people in the SXSW hit-and-run, did not make an appearance in Judge Cliff Brown's 147th Criminal District Court that day..."

SXSW crash suspect Rashad Owens appears in court for first...Austin American‑StatesmanJun 4, 2014 - Rashad Charjuan Owens, charged in the deadly crash during the South by Southwest music festival, made a brief appearance in court ...


Death Toll From Drunk Driving Crash At SXSW Festival Rises


AP | Posted 05.27.2014 | Crime

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A fourth person has died of injuries suffered earlier this month when a suspected drunken driver drove into a crowd at the Sout...

Third person dies as a result of last week’s SXSW crash By Robert Wilonsky
rwilonsky@dallasnews.com 11:43 a.m. on March 17, 2014  3rd victim Sandy Thuy Le, 26, died at University Medical Center Brackenridge. Her family was present, according to a Seton Healthcare spokesman.  Le, a Mississippi native [by way of South Vietnam, at least her parents], had apparently moved to Austin with the intention of going to school there. She’s been at University Medical Center Brackenridge in critical condition since early Thursday, when police allege 21-year-old Killeen resident Rashad Charjuan Owens, drunk and evading arrest, intentionally steered toward pedestrians standing in front of The Mohwak.  Two others were pronounced dead Thursday: Jamie West, a 27-year-old from Austin, and Steven Craenmehr, a 35-year-old musician from the Netherlands. Her brother-in-law told The Clarion-Ledger that the family had been “pulling for a miracle.” He says that “now we’re starting the business side of things, the funeral and the logistics. The fact that the healing process has been delayed has made it tough.”


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Daily MailMar 16, 2014 - Red River St. remains closed outside of The Mowhawk where motoristRashad Charjuan Owens collided with a bicycle and a moped, killing ...

Man who plowed car into crowd at SXSW charged with ...ww.cnn.com/2014/03/13/us/texas-sxsw-crash/CNNMar 15, 2014 - Rashad Charjuan Owens allegedly tore through the crowd while drunk, running over people and hitting other cars. At least 23 others were ...
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CLAIM: Driver In Deadly Crash Accelerated Into SXSW Crowd


AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 03.14.2014 | Crime

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The drunken-driving suspect who police say killed two people after he smashed his car through a street barricade at the South B...

Suspect in fatal SXSW crash was set to perform at East ...Austin American‑Statesman Mar 13, 2014 - 5:15 p.m. update: Rashad Charjuan Owens had been in Austin to perform at an East Austin venue before police say he plowed through a ..

Spin Other details have come to light as well, sourced from Owens’ Facebook page — see photos of him below — and family members. Local newspaper the American-Statesman, who broke the news of the suspect’s identity, say Owens was set to perform at Club 1808 near Chicon Street and 12th. During the tragic event, he’d turned from Ninth onto the closed-off Red River, barelled through a barricade, then crashed near East 11th. Andrew Barmwell, a soldier stationed at Fort Hood in Killeen, reported his car stolen with local police earlier that day. He has said that he believes the vehicle used during the incident — a gray Toyota sedan — was his , a man claiming to be Owens’ brother, Lamar Wilson, told theStatesman that Owens raps and produces under the names KillingAllBeatz or K.A.B254 — his SoundCloud page is still active — and that the man is also the father of six children. According to his Facebook profile, Owens’ most recent child, a daughter, was born on February 5 and he works at Subway.

21-year-old driver to be charged with two counts of capital murder Austin woman riding on the back of a moped and a man from the Netherlands on a bicycle were killed when the car hit a crowd of people outside Mohawk. More than 20 others were taken to the hospital.

AUSTIN – Rashad Charjuan Owens, 21, the driver in a deadly downtown wreck who police suspected of driving drunk, will be charged with two counts of capital murder and 23 counts of aggravated assault with a vehicle after the car plowed through a crowded street full of people waiting for a South by Southwest concert



Mass murderer/war criminal Rashad Charjuan Owens was allegedly drunk, but there's nothing "alleged" about what he did

http://kxan.com/2014/03/13/crash-suspect-had-pleaded-guilty-to-dui-in-2011-case-2/
KXAN’s SXSW Coverage
SXSW nightlife returns after deadly crash
Dozens attend vigil to remember those killed, pray for those still in the hospital
Crash suspect had pleaded guilty to DUI in 2011 case
Family rushes to teen’s side at Austin hospital after she was critically injured in crash
Police release names of people injured in SXSW crash
VIDEO: Police chief, city officials give latest details on deadly crash
Doctor on those critically injured: “We are going to do our best for them”
Brothers who recorded scene were overcome by fear in crash’s aftermath
Driver leaves path of carnage after speeding away from officers
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Owens sped away from an officer after being stopped on suspicion of DWI a few blocks earlier.

Owens almost hit a police officer with the car while trying to get away, according to police. He then went the wrong way on Ninth Street, plowed through a barricade on Red River Street, and hit the people in the crowd.

“This is an individual that committed an intentional act,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said of the suspect.

Owens then went through the intersection at 10th Street before crashing into Craenmehr and West at the intersection of Red River and 11th Street. He also struck a taxi and drove onto a curb and into a parking lot before hitting a van.

Owens had previously been charged with DUI and leaving the scene of a 2011 incident in Alaska. He was also arrested in Bell County, Texas in 2012.

He pleaded guilty in November 2011 to intoxicated driving after a hit-and-run incident in Alaska.

Records show Rashad Owens was charged with misdemeanor DWI and leaving the scene of an accident after an incident Oct. 17, 2011, in Fairbanks. The prosecution dismissed the second charge at the time.

in September 2010, Owens was arrested in Texas by the Killeen Independent School District police for criminal trespassing. He pleaded guilty and was convicted in October 2010.


Rashad Charjuan Owens - Heavy.com
heavy.com/news/2014/03/sxsw-crash-suspect-rashad-charjuan-owens/Mar 13, 2014 - Rashad Charjuan Owens, 21, was named by the Austin Statesmen in Texas as the suspect in the fatal DWI crash that killed two people and ...

Rashad Charjuan Owens, Suspect In Deadly South By ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../rashad-charjuan-owens...The Huffington PostMar 14, 2014 - Rashad Charjuan Owens was charged with one count of capital murder, though additional charges can be added later. Austin Police Chief Art ...
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Rashad Charjuan Owens Rapper - The Source
thesource.com › NewsMar 20, 2014 - Rashad Charjuan Owens, the man responsible for the deadly crash at ... Rashad Charjuan Owens, Was Aspiring Rapper, On Way to Perform ...

Rashad Charjuan Owens arrest affidavit - Newswatch
blog.chron.com/.../rashad-charjuan-owens-arrest-affid...Houston ChronicleMar 14, 2014 - Rashad Charjuan Owens, a 21-year-old aspiring rapper and father of six from Killeen, was charged Friday with one count of capital murder, ...

Rashad Charjuan Owens - LA Times
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Rashad Charjuan Owens Photos: Pictures of Suspect in ...
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Mar 13, 2014 - Photos of Rashad Charjuan Owens, named as the suspect in the deadly SXSW crash outside The Mohawk early Thursday morning, show that ...

Rashad Charjuan Owens Named As Suspect In SXSW Car CrashHuffington Post ‎-The Austin Police Department has named Rashad Charjuan Owens, 21, as the suspected driver of a car that crashed into a crowd during the ... in September 2010, Owens was arrested in Texas by the Killeen Independent School District police for criminal trespassing. He pleaded guilty and was convicted in October 2010.



Who Is Rashad Charjuan Owens? Suspected Drunk Driver In Deadly SXSW Crash Identified


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13 hours ago - The American-Statesman in Austin first confirmed the identity of the suspect in the SXSW incident as Rashad Charjuan Owens, 21, of Killeen, ...

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13 hours ago - Police identified Rashad Charjuan Owens as the suspected driver who drove through a crowd at the SXSW festival in Austin Thursday, killing ...


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13 hours ago - 5:15 p.m. update: Rashad Charjuan Owens had been in Austin to perform at an East Austin venue before police say he plowed through a ...

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