Man having 'bad' night drives wrong way down highway, kills college student headed home from wedding moments after she texted family she loved them, cops say

A 53-year-old Florida antheral allegedly deed and killed a 21-year-old pistillate erstwhile helium was driving the incorrect mode down the road during what helium described arsenic a "bad" night.

Dennis Olson stands accused of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide successful the decease of Lauryn Akey. According to a probable origin apprehension affidavit, Olson drove a Ford F-150 southbound connected the northbound lanes of I-75 adjacent mile marker 149 successful Charlotte County soon aft 1 a.m. May 17.

Olson archetypal sideswiped a Kia Optima and continued traveling the incorrect way, troopers from the Florida Highway Patrol said. He past collided head-on with Akey's Honda CR-V, the affidavit stated. Akey was ejected from the conveyance and pronounced dormant connected scene.

A witnesser helped Olson retired of his motortruck and noted helium had slurred speech, troopers wrote. Troopers spoke with Olson connected scene, and helium allegedly admitted to being down the instrumentality of the motortruck and said helium was having a "bad" night. He said helium was coming from "Sip & Sizzle" successful Fort Myers wherever helium claimed helium had 1 solid of wine.

Authorities drew his humor which showed helium had a BAC of 0.222, astir 3 times the ineligible limit. After his merchandise from the hospital, cops took him to the Charlotte County Jail wherever helium remains without bond.

Akey's household said she was coming location from attending a wedding. She had conscionable bought state and texted household members she loved them and that she was astir home. Moments later, she was dead.

Her mother, Melinda Mucho, told reporters her girl was acceptable to postgraduate from the University of South Florida adjacent twelvemonth with a grade successful workout science. She wanted to go a nurse.

"She would person done astonishing things," Mucho said. "Her beingness was conscionable connected the horizon; her beingness was conscionable getting started with her boyfriend. She was going to postgraduate adjacent year, and I privation everyone to spot her and consciousness that."

Akey's friends started the hashtag #lovelikelauryn connected societal media to grant her memory.

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"You tin look her up and spot however loved she is. I conscionable privation everyone to consciousness that," Mucho said. "You tin consciousness it by looking astatine her smile. I privation everyone to spot her and beryllium similar her. She was ne'er mean to anybody. She brought radical together, truthful galore radical together. Loved hard, loved truthful hard."

Olson reportedly has a erstwhile drunk driving condemnation successful Minnesota, wherever helium besides drove the incorrect mode down a road. His adjacent tribunal day successful the Florida lawsuit is June 15.