A Florida woman has been charged with four counts of attempted murder after authorities say she deliberately crashed her minivan into a tree with her children inside.
Inside was a woman and her four children, who were not wearing seatbelts. Authorities said everyone in the car was taken to a hospital.
The children, three girls and one boy, suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Meanwhile, Williams has been arrested and charged with four counts of attempted murder. She will be taken to Marion County Jail after being released from Ocala Regional Medical Center, the station reported.
Corie Byrd, with the Ocala Police Department, told WKMG that Williams had been talking about voodoo when first responders arrived and that she told them that her husband had put a hex on her, which caused her to crash.
“She made some utterances about a hex from her husband and that’s what made her crash, but we really don’t know the way at this point,” Byrd said, adding that the woman claimed she was “being followed by a lot of people in cars and she was trying to read all their tag numbers.”
Investigators said evidence shows that Williams did not try to slow down or brake when she veered into the medium and hit the tree.
“Based on [an investigator’s] findings, he was able to determine there were no brake marks, and based on some of the scuff marks and tire tracks in the median, you can tell she was steering directly toward the palm tree,” Byrd told the broadcaster.
No bond had been set for Williams.