Nick Petosky

Drunk at three times the limit, she hit two people with her car. Both died. The same night she sat in a hospital singing and planning a Vegas trip: "I'm going to start off with two Long Islands." A cop told her she'd killed two people and was going to jail. Her answer: "I'm just wondering when I can go to school." April 10, 2022, East Peoria, Illinois. Stephanie Melgoza, 24, was a Bradley University student, four weeks from graduating. Paul Prowant, 55, and Andrea Rosewicz, 43, were on foot near a bar when her car hit them. Both died at the scene. Her first words to the officer: "I go to Bradley, why would this happen to me?" She said she'd had about three vodkas. "If you had me do a test, I think I would pass." She blew 0.264, more than three times the limit. In her car police found an open bottle of vodka and marijuana. In the video below she tells the officer she's going to start singing "because I hate quiet." He tells her: "You killed two people tonight. I don't think you understand that." She asks about her car. She pleaded guilty to aggravated DUI and aggravated reckless driving. In April 2023 she got 14 years, half the maximum of 28. In court she said: "I will live with this every day, and I will try to live for all of us." 14 years for two lives. Enough, or should a drunk driver who kills be charged with murder?