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In Illinois, Three Young Children Die
Aired September 04, 2003 - 08:09 ET
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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: In Illinois, three young children died after a car they were in rolled into a lake. The mother was nearby and reported the incident. Now authorities say they're going to try to reconstruct what happened.
CNN's Jeff Flock is live for us in Clinton, Illinois with the latest -- good morning, Jeff.
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Soledad, good morning to you.
Indeed, we expect authorities to be back here at the sheriff's office in about an hour or so. They were here until midnight last night, have been working long and hard on this case. Still so far a lot more questions than answers.
Here's what we know. This incident took place Tuesday night at a place called Lake Clinton, not too awful far from here. Six children are now dead. Christopher Hamm, six years old; Austin Brown, his brother, three years old; Kyleigh Hamm, a girl 23 months, their sister, also dead. She died a day later, after having been airlifted out. The other two boys dead in the car that rolled into Lake Clinton.
The mother, 28-year-old Amanda Hamm, calling from a pay phone at the boat ramp to report the children were trapped in the car. The sheriff not saying exactly what efforts she made to try and rescue them. We do know, however, now that her boyfriend, a 28-year-old man named Maurice Lagrone, has been charged with driving under the influence. He was driving the car in which the children were killed.
Not a whole lot of other details from the sheriff, Soledad. He's saying that he wants to be very methodical in trying to reconstruct this because he's conscious of the concerns here. Obviously you've got an incident on a boat ramp where there's no boat involved. So it raises questions. They want to try to answer them and maybe some by early this afternoon -- Soledad.
O'BRIEN: All right, Jeff Flock, what a terrible story.
Thanks for that update.
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Aired September 4, 2003 - 08:09 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: In Illinois, three young children died after a car they were in rolled into a lake. The mother was nearby and reported the incident. Now authorities say they're going to try to reconstruct what happened.
CNN's Jeff Flock is live for us in Clinton, Illinois with the latest -- good morning, Jeff.
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Soledad, good morning to you.
Indeed, we expect authorities to be back here at the sheriff's office in about an hour or so. They were here until midnight last night, have been working long and hard on this case. Still so far a lot more questions than answers.
Here's what we know. This incident took place Tuesday night at a place called Lake Clinton, not too awful far from here. Six children are now dead. Christopher Hamm, six years old; Austin Brown, his brother, three years old; Kyleigh Hamm, a girl 23 months, their sister, also dead. She died a day later, after having been airlifted out. The other two boys dead in the car that rolled into Lake Clinton.
The mother, 28-year-old Amanda Hamm, calling from a pay phone at the boat ramp to report the children were trapped in the car. The sheriff not saying exactly what efforts she made to try and rescue them. We do know, however, now that her boyfriend, a 28-year-old man named Maurice Lagrone, has been charged with driving under the influence. He was driving the car in which the children were killed.
Not a whole lot of other details from the sheriff, Soledad. He's saying that he wants to be very methodical in trying to reconstruct this because he's conscious of the concerns here. Obviously you've got an incident on a boat ramp where there's no boat involved. So it raises questions. They want to try to answer them and maybe some by early this afternoon -- Soledad.
O'BRIEN: All right, Jeff Flock, what a terrible story.
Thanks for that update.
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