GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan’s attorney general is making changes after an “oversight” in her office delayed criminal charges in a car crash that killed a woman and baby.
“We are reviewing every step of this to determine what the breakdown was to ensure it never happens again,” said AG Communications Director Kelly Rossman-McKinney when the error was first discovered.
“Attorney General Dana Nessel and Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud have both been made aware of this situation and are deeply troubled by it.”
Ultimately, it took one year for charges to be filed against the driver who allegedly rear-ended a car carrying a family returning home from Sunday church.
The Michigan State Police say Brian Wayne Johnson, 27, of Cedar Springs, slammed into the back of the car, which was stopped on M-46, waiting to turn left onto Amble Road.
The accident killed two people in the stopped car — Samantha Baker, 18, of Winfield Township, and her nine-month-old niece, Annalee Baker.
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