The mother who plowed into a Kansas youth soccer game was seen being detained by police after two people were killed, including a six-year-old boy, and almost a dozen others injured.
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Footage captured the moment the unidentified mother, 34, was taken into custody by police after the horrifying incident killed Cole Adrian, six, and Nicholas Schafer, 35, on Saturday afternoon.
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The woman's truck raced into the youth soccer game at Stryker Sports Complex in a black pickup truck just before 3.30pm, as screams echoed across the fields.
The driver allegedly shouted, 'Oh my God, oh my God, what have I done?' when pulled from the vehicle by bystanders at the event, according to the New York Post.
Shortly after bystanders pulled the driver from the vehicle, police were seen on video walking a woman in handcuffs toward their patrol car across the grass.
The Garden City native was released without charges on Sunday afternoon pending a toxicology test and a mechanical examination of the vehicle, according to police.
'No charges have been filed at this time, and investigators continue working to determine the circumstances that led to the crash,' law enforcement said.
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Erica Case told NBC News that she was at the game watching her nine-year-old play soccer on an adjacent field when the truck sped over the grass, and said: 'I saw the truck hitting things.
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I saw debris flying in the air,' she recalled.
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Footage captured the moment the unidentified mother, 34, was taken into custody by police after the horrifying incident killed Cole Adrian, six, and Nicholas Schafer, 35, on Saturday afternoon
Cole Adrian, six, was killed in the crash at the sports complex on Saturday
Nicholas Schafer, 35, was also killed in the horrific crash.
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His family has declined to speak to the media at this time
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I don’t know if it was a cone, a chair or a person, but you could see matter flying as the truck was barreling through the soccer field at a decent rate of speed.
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'The moment that I recognized that that wasn’t gunshots, that that was bodies, I lost it.
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I lost it because it wasn’t just adults.
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She remembered hearing a boy's mother volunteering as a nurse to help those struck by the car, and Case offered to watch the woman's son.
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Emergency responders arrived on the scene around ten minutes after the chaos unfolded, but bystanders were attempting to help in any way possible.
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'There are a lot of silent heroes that I know experienced much worse than I did, having to do mouth-to-mouth or CPR on somebody that’d been ran over by a truck,' Case said.
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David Griekspoor told the outlet that he had been at the fields to watch his nephew play soccer, and described the sound he could recall 'like small gunfire.
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'You look up, and you just see the truck going through a line of people,' Griekspoor said.
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Another mother, Vanessa Trammell, who was at the complex watching her 13-year-old son's game, said she saw the truck drive across the neighboring field near the sidelines, striking several people.
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Erica Case was at her nine-year-old son's youth soccer game at Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita just before 3pm on Saturday when an unidentified 34-year-old driver crashed into one of the fields
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It was pure panic,' she told CNN of the chaos that ensued.
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'I didn't know what was going on - just that people were being hit.
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I'm pretty sure I probably screamed, but absolutely, just pure panic was going through me.'
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She also noted that her son's coach was one of the people that ran to help the victims, and a youth soccer player only identified as Isaac said his father was one of the people who rushed to remove the driver from the vehicle.
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'My dad went to the truck [and] took the person out of the truck so that they don't hit any more people,' he told KWCH.
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'I'm shocked that he did that 'cause if he didn't do that, maybe the car wouldn't have stopped and more people could've got hit,' the boy added.
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Among those left with traumatic injuries were two five-year-olds, a girl and boy, and a nine-year-old girl.
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The rest of those hurt are aged between 28 and 68 years old.
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Two of the driver's children were in the back of the Chevrolet pickup truck at the time of the incident, and her third child had been playing in a game on a different field, police said.
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A memorial was set up to pay tribute to the victims of Saturday's tragic events
Among those left with traumatic injuries included two five-year-olds, a girl and boy, and a nine-year-old girl.
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The rest of those hurt are aged between 28 and 68 years old
Emergency responders wheel a stretcher near the scene of the horrific incident, which saw multiple casualties rushed to area hospitals following the deadly crash
Other parents and bystanders attempted 'life-saving assistance' to those injured during the incident, Wichita Police Department Chief Joe Sullivan said.
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'It was truly amazing, but I think it’s indicative of the Wichita community,' he said.
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Investigators have yet to elaborate further on why the woman was released, and they have not commented further on whether they believe she was intoxicated, if she may have suffered a medical episode, or if there was a problem with the car she was driving.
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Investigators also do not know how fast the truck was going or how it managed to get on the field, Police Captain Aaron Moses said.
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Police said the woman was cooperating with the investigation.
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But a witness told local television station 12 News that the 'black pickup truck came plowing through the youth soccer fields, hitting multiple people before stopping 100-200 yards down the fields.
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In a statement on Sunday, Wichita Police Chief Joe Sullivan shared his condolences with the victims' families.
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'Our hearts are with the families of Adrian and Nicholas as they face an unimaginable loss.
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What should have been a day of children playing soccer and families spending time together ended in tragedy,' Sullivan said.
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After striking almost a dozen people at around 3.25pm, the woman shouted, 'Oh my God, oh my God, what have I done?'
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a reporter recalled
Investigators have yet to elaborate further on why the woman was released and they have not commented further on whether they believe she was intoxicated, if she may have suffered a medical episode, or if there was a problem with the car she was driving
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We are also thinking about those who were injured, their loved ones and everyone who witnessed what happened.
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We know this tragedy has affected many people throughout our community, and we want those families to know they are not alone.
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