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Dec 22, 2021 · Lindy Simmons, 20, Kamryn Simmons, 15, and brother Christopher, 16, were driving home with their mother. By Harriet Sokmensuer. Published on December 22, 2021 04:02PM EST. Siblings Lindy ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Missouri Supreme Court case involving death penalty eligibility for minors. At issue was the case of Christopher Simmons, who was 17-years-old when he kidnapped neighbor Shirley Crook in 1993, tied her, and threw her off a bridge in St. Louis County.
May 28, 2019 · Christopher Simmons was 17 years of age at the time of his arrest for the September 9, 1993 murder of Shirley Crook. Crook’s body was found in the Meramec River in St. Louis County. She had been tied with electric cable, leather straps and duct tape, had bruises on her body and fractured ribs.
Dec 21, 2021 · Lindy Simmons, 20, Christopher Simmons, 17, and Kamryn Simmons, 15, were killed in a car crash Friday. The large family had nine children. Dawn Simmons remained hospitalized in critical condition.
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The family was on their way back home from Christopher’s basketball game the night of Dec. 17, 2021. Also in the car was Christopher's high school sweetheart, Marissa. They were driving south on Interstate 49 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, when 54-year-old John Lundy of Dallas, Georgia, got on the wrong side of the highway and hit the Simmons’ ca...
The coming months were a fog of anger and disbelief. "The emptiness of the house screams their absence every day," Simmons wrote in the blog seven months after the crash. “I never thought that I would miss having piles of laundry to fold. I never thought that I would miss having to stop at the store every day or a few times a day ... I miss it all....
The year that the Simmons siblings were killed, they were among 13,384 drunk-driving deaths that year, a 14% increase from 2020. That's 37 people every day, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Through their work with the nonprofit and other local organizations, Simmons and DeRouen realized they could have maximum impact...
DeRouen has been spreading the word farther through viral TikTok videos. Several of her posts have gotten millions of views, she's gained a following of more than 580,000 people and people from all over the U.S. write letters to the Simmons family. "I just decided to make one with the kids to hopefully get the message out," she said of how she got ...
Dawn Simmons' children Christopher, Lindy and Kamryn were killed by a drunk driver in Louisiana in December 2021. She and her daughter Katie DeRouen have started a nonprofit to prevent reckless driving and share their grief on TikTok.
Oct 28, 2023 · Christopher Simmons was 17 when he and two friends kidnapped and killed Shirley Crook in 1993. He was sentenced to death, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to execute juveniles in 2003.
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In the state of Missouri in 1993, 17-year-old Christopher Simmons concocted a plan to commit burglary and murder, having previously told friends that he "wanted to kill someone" and that he "believed he could get away with it because he was a minor".
