Two indicted in car crash involving UO distance runners

Originally Posted on Emerald Media via UWIRE

On Nov. 26, 2012, University of Oregon distance runners Molly Grabill and Chris Brewer were driving on Interstate 5 when a rock was thrown from an overpass, shattering the window of their vehicle and causing it to spin out of control. Grabill was hospitalized for two days and suffered several injuries to her head and face, including a broken jaw.

The case has remained open for two years. Two Douglas County residents, Matthew Logan McKinney and Hayden Ray Tabor, were implicated following police investigation into the crime.

But in 2014, after Grabill filed a $950,000 lawsuit against 21-year-olds McKinney and Tabor that was later dropped in November, the pair responsible for the crash are now facing several counts of second, third and fourth degree assault after a grand jury indicted them last month, according to the Register Guard. 

McKinney and Tabor, both residents of Douglas County, are scheduled for an arraignment later this month. According to Oregon state measure 11, anyone convicted of second-degree assault faces a minimum prison sentence of almost six years.

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