PHOENIX, Arizona — The driver accused of killing two Clarkston girls and one girl from Hawaii in a wrong-way crash in Arizona is now in police custody.
25-year-old Vincent Laveen was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on Monday, Oct. 31. He is facing murder charges for the deaths of Abriauna Hoffman and Maggie Ogden from Clarkston, as well as Hunter Balderi from Hawaii.
The three victims were all freshmen at Grand Canyon University (GCU). Around 4 a.m. on Oct. 10, the three students were traveling down I-17 when a wrong-way driver crashed into them. The wrong-way driver then collided with another vehicle traveling northbound.
The three GCU students were traveling in the same car. Two of the young women were pronounced dead at the scene and the third later died from injuries sustained from the crash.
Hoffman, 18, was a marketing major. Balberdi and Ogden were pre-med majors.
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