Austin Man Who Killed One in Bus Stop Crash Gets 25 Years
Charles Roberts Jr. veered off of Manchaca Road when he lost control of his van while evading a sheriff’s deputy last year in Austin, Texas. He was pulled over by police for traffic law violations in Austin, when he reportedly decided to flee from the scene.
Someone near the area stated Robert’s told him, “I have warrants and I need to get home to my wife and kids before disappearing.” When leaving the sheriff’s deputy behind Charles Roberts Jr. hit and killed Rondal Lynn Brooks at a local bus stop.
Rondal Lynn Brooks had previously been involved in a fatal automobile accident in which two other people had been killed.The full explanation can be found at http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/mar/10/robert-charles-lansworth-78/?partner=RSS Brooks was afraid to drive anymore after the car crash, and that is why he was at the bus stop when Charles Roberts Jr. took his life.
Fourty-one year old, Rondal Lynn Brooks worked a double shift as a technician at Texas Neurorehab Center in South Austin. The Toyota Sienna driven by Charles Robert’s Jr. May 11, 2011 hit Brooks a little while after 10 p.m. The impact was so intense that Brooks was thrown into a nearby tree.
Charles Roberts Jr. was sentenced twenty-four to twenty-five years in prison.