Updated: 1:02 p.m. Thursday, April 23, 2009 | Posted: 5:41 a.m. Thursday, April 23, 2009
ATLANTA —
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 hit and run suspect IM Aimee Michael Aimee Michael EASTER CRASH CARTER FAMILY IM The Carter Family Carter family killed in Easter Crash TWITTER: Get Updates @ twitter.com/wsb_tv
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.
Atlanta motocycle cops on scene IM Atlanta motorcycle police at the SWAT scene in south Fulton motorcycle officers at scene Photographer at arrest scene IM Channel 2 Action News photographer Dave Darling at the scene of the SWAT activity in south Fulton.