A Boulder County grand jury has indicted a 26-year-old Longmont man and his mother in connection with a 2007 single-vehicle crash that killed one person and seriously injured five others.
Noah Ray Thomas and Mary Melissa McLarty, 47, were arrested Wednesday and remain in the Boulder County Jail. Thomas faces one count of vehicular homicide and five counts of vehicular assault. McLarty faces four counts of accessory to a crime.
According to the indictments, which were unsealed Wednesday, Thomas was driving seven passengers in a 1989 Chevrolet Blazer about 2 a.m. June 15, 2007, after a night of drinking at A Bit of Billiards Sports Bar & Grill, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd. in Longmont.
Two female passengers had met Thomas for the first time that night and accepted a ride home after one of his friends told them that Thomas was a designated driver, according to the indictment.
Thomas, who several witnesses said was drunk when he left the bar, is suspected of crashing the Blazer near the intersection of Monarch Road and U.S. 287, careening into a ditch and hitting a tree.
Jeffrey Turner, 25, of Longmont, suffered massive head trauma and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the indictment. The other passengers suffered significant injuries including traumatic brain injuries, a ruptured spleen and lacerated liver.
Thomas left the injured passengers at the scene and walked home with his brother, who also was in the vehicle and suffered minor injuries, according to the indictment.
When they arrived at their mother’s house at 6720 N. 107th St., Thomas fell to the ground just inside the door. His mother, McLarty, saw her son’s injuries and called a friend with a tow truck instead of 911, according to the indictment. She then went to find the Blazer and discovered several people with “serious bodily injuries.”
McLarty left the scene after the tow truck arrived and didn’t call police or ask anyone else to, according to the indictment.
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