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No Bond For Suspect In Fatal Hit-And-Run That Killed 5

Posted: 5:41 am EDT April 23, 2009Updated: 1:02 pm EDT April 23, 2009

A Fulton County judge denied bond Thursday for Aimee Michael, the woman police said confessed to causing the Easter Sunday hit-and-run wreck that left five people dead.

Michael, 22, was charged with five counts of homicide by a vehicle, failure to maintain lane, one count of causing serious injury by vehicle, and hit-and-run, according to an e-mail Fulton County prosecutors sent to Channel 2 Action News.

Michael told investigators she was in her BMW, going to the store to pick up cake and ice cream, when she was involved in the wreck that killed five people on Easter Sunday.

She said she drove home, parked the BMW in the garage and didn't tell anyone about the wreck for two days.

Aimee Michael

Aimee Michael

Carter family killed in Easter Crash

The Carter Family


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Acting on a tip, SWAT officers converged on a home in south Fulton Wednesday and impounded the vehicle in the driveway. Police spokeswoman Sgt. Melissa Parker said officers went into the home but found no one there. Police later said they were questioning three women in the case.

At about 3:30 a.m. Thursday two of the women were released, but shortly after that, Michael was charged.

Robert and Delisia Carter, their newborn son, and Delisia Carter's 9-year-old daughter, Kayla, died in the chain-reaction crash near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Also killed was 6-year-old Morgan Johnson, whose mother, 43-year-old Tracy Johnson of Atlanta was injured.

Police said that Michael, the driver of the BMW which first collided with the Carters' vehicle, left the scene.

motorcycle officers at scene

Atlanta motorcycle police at the SWAT scene in south Fulton

Channel 2 Action News photographer Dave Darling at the scene of the SWAT activity in south Fulton.

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