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July 2nd, 2011, 08:15 AM
Winston Charleston, barely 14, had been teasing his mother about taking her car for a joyride.
On Wednesday, she had asked him to retrieve a case of water from her Chrysler Sebring, parked across from their Tacony home.
"Come on, I'm just going to take it for a quick spin," she remembered him taunting as he jangled the keys.
Barbara Newton, 48, watched her son walk to the car and back, and then lectured him on the dangers of driving. "You'll have plenty of time to drive when you're older," she told him.
On Thursday, Charleston was charged with murder as an adult after, police said, he snatched the keys from his mother's purse as she slept and took three friends for a late-night ride.
About 2:15 a.m., speeding without headlights on, Charleston zoomed past state troopers on the shoulder of I-95 near the Academy Road exit. Northbound off the ramp, he blew through a red light and lost control of the car, a witness said. Spinning out, the car slammed head-on into a Volkswagen Jetta and a Chevrolet Impala, both southbound near Willits Road, police said. Troopers arrived moments later.
Daniel Fouracre, 22, of Bensalem, who had been in the passenger seat of the his girlfriend's Jetta, was pronounced dead at the scene. His girlfriend, Jessica Feldman, 20, of Huntingdon Valley, was hospitalized with a shoulder injury, and a broken elbow and finger, her family said.
Two of the teens traveling with Charleston had multiple broken bones and cuts, and are in stable condition, police said.
Charleston was treated at Aria Health-Torresdale Campus for neck pain and released into police custody.
Since he had been driving underage and without a license, the Sebring was considered a "weapon," a police official said, and Charleston, who turned 14 Monday, was booked on murder and other assault and manslaughter charges.
Police are awaiting toxicology reports.
Fouracre and Feldman, who had been dating for four years, were returning from a night out with friends, their families said.
"My sister really loved Dan," Feldman's brother Brandon said outside the family's home.
From her hospital bed, Feldman told police that saw the Sebring speeding toward her and screamed, according to a police report. The next thing she remembered, she told police, was being pulled from the twisted wreck.
Fouracre, a 2007 graduate of Bucks County Vocational-Technical School, had worked as an air-conditioning and heating technician and was recently looking for new work.
On Wednesday, she had asked him to retrieve a case of water from her Chrysler Sebring, parked across from their Tacony home.
"Come on, I'm just going to take it for a quick spin," she remembered him taunting as he jangled the keys.
Barbara Newton, 48, watched her son walk to the car and back, and then lectured him on the dangers of driving. "You'll have plenty of time to drive when you're older," she told him.
On Thursday, Charleston was charged with murder as an adult after, police said, he snatched the keys from his mother's purse as she slept and took three friends for a late-night ride.
About 2:15 a.m., speeding without headlights on, Charleston zoomed past state troopers on the shoulder of I-95 near the Academy Road exit. Northbound off the ramp, he blew through a red light and lost control of the car, a witness said. Spinning out, the car slammed head-on into a Volkswagen Jetta and a Chevrolet Impala, both southbound near Willits Road, police said. Troopers arrived moments later.
Daniel Fouracre, 22, of Bensalem, who had been in the passenger seat of the his girlfriend's Jetta, was pronounced dead at the scene. His girlfriend, Jessica Feldman, 20, of Huntingdon Valley, was hospitalized with a shoulder injury, and a broken elbow and finger, her family said.
Two of the teens traveling with Charleston had multiple broken bones and cuts, and are in stable condition, police said.
Charleston was treated at Aria Health-Torresdale Campus for neck pain and released into police custody.
Since he had been driving underage and without a license, the Sebring was considered a "weapon," a police official said, and Charleston, who turned 14 Monday, was booked on murder and other assault and manslaughter charges.
Police are awaiting toxicology reports.
Fouracre and Feldman, who had been dating for four years, were returning from a night out with friends, their families said.
"My sister really loved Dan," Feldman's brother Brandon said outside the family's home.
From her hospital bed, Feldman told police that saw the Sebring speeding toward her and screamed, according to a police report. The next thing she remembered, she told police, was being pulled from the twisted wreck.
Fouracre, a 2007 graduate of Bucks County Vocational-Technical School, had worked as an air-conditioning and heating technician and was recently looking for new work.