Somebody I killed somebody, baby.
I killed somebody, baby. Did you know
you were driving on the sidewalk? Oh,
no. Cuz I would have noticed
a problem. I'm just worried about the
mother deer or whatever the it was,
but when I looked at my truck, it was no
deer.
It's 2 a.m. in Molen, Illinois, where
one woman is about to learn she's just
allegedly killed two people while drunk
driving. So, the female in here was the
driver, though. As far as I know, yeah,
she was standing outside the car. Sorry.
Okay.
Here we get a look at the suspect's car
that was allegedly driven onto a
pedestrian walkway before the driver hit
three people, ultimately killing two and
leaving one critically injured. Steps
away, the suspect waits for
investigators in an ambulance.
I hit my head on this lost police
department.
Um, so I just kind of I was talking to
an officer. I just want to like kind of
verify a few things. So that that's your
SUV then? Yes. Okay. And you were coming
from Davenport or No, right off that
bridge right there. Police identify the
suspect seen here as 46-year-old Shabria
Harris, who they said called 911 after
the fatal crash, suspecting she hit an
animal. Did the new bridge over here
from Bendorfin or right there? I was
coming through that. Got you up under
there.
Yeah. Where were you at before you on
the bridge?
Were you in that or down here? Rock
Island. No. Down here. Come through
that
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rough. Yeah. See?
So you uh was anybody else in the car
with you? Just you. Where were you
coming from? Right there. But where were
you at though? Where were you at when
you were coming? Mom, I went and got me
some drink over there and I was coming
over here. Where did you get the drink
at?
Getting on the border. Yeah. No.
Are you are you right there by my job?
Okay.
Yeah.
Did you get your last name? The officer
gathers Shabria's information before
asking her to do some field sobriety
tests. Let's see how she does. Oh my
god. Yeah, I know. It's okay. That was
no deer. It's just a car. That was no
vehicle. that one. Okay. So, do a favor.
Just know you're okay. Face me. Face
you. Yep. Just stand there like that.
Now, go ahead. Now, imagine there's
imagine your line in front of you. They
go straight out towards the rocks over
there. Okay. Now, put your left foot on
that line. And what I want you to do is
put your right foot in front of your
left foot so that the heel begin. Yep.
Go ahead and begin for me.
Baby, y'all see somebody back there?
Well, we're dealing with that. We're
going to do this first. Okay. Just go
ahead. Okay. I'm sorry. Nope. So, get
back in starting position like I showed
you.
Ready? Yep. Miss Harris, get back to
starting position like I showed you and
then go ahead and begin when you're
ready. Sorry big. Ready? I peed on
myself. That's okay. Sorry. Yep. Go
ahead and begin. Yep.
Keep your hands down by your side for
me. Cut out loud.
Oh my
god. Ready?
Just do it like I showed you. You didn't
see how many I said nine. Remember it's
okay. Make sure you're kind of loud. My
nerves are back. I I get you. How many
did I get? But once you do that nine, go
ahead and make the turn like I showed
you. Then do the next nine. Okay. How
many did I do? Start over. Nope. Just
continue from where you are.
I can't. Okay. I'm nervous. I'm sorry.
Okay. Okay. I'm have you. So, we're
going back over here. Okay. And maybe
you do one more thing for me. Baby, you
seeing that? Yep. That was not an
animal. Next, the officer explains the
one-legged stand test before Shabria
finds herself in handcuffs. Yep. Begin.
No, no. You're just you're just raising
your foot. Remember, just raise one foot
all and hold it off the ground about 6
in parallel to the ground and then start
counting out loud for me. Okay.
And if you put your foot down, you can't
do it. I can't. Okay. Okay.
How many did I have to hold it? What's
that? How many did I have to hold? I'm
just nervous. I know. Don't put your
hand on your back for me. Okay. You
place the wrist for DUI. All right.
Okay.
Do you have anything you need out of
that car right now? No. Okay.
So, she handed her phone off to mom.
Okay.
I want you to have
We're going to probably get your phone
so you can call this phone. Can I try
one more time?
I mean, I'm nervous.
Can I Can I try one more time?
So, we're going to come back to my car.
Okay.
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Like I said, seeing my [ __ ] and and
knowing no know, I'm nervous. How do you
pronounce your first name again? Sharia.
Sharia. Okay. Can I take another test?
Oh, yeah. I'm going to I'm going to give
you an opportunity to give me to do
another test. Okay. We're going to go
down to the PD first. See that? Right.
Shabria is seated in a patrol car and
sent on her way to jail. And while in
route, she has a few more thoughts to
add. Okay, baby. But did y'all see it
with the animal, though? We can talk
about that later, too. Okay. Huh? We'll
talk about that here in a minute. Oh my
god.
RPD with Shria Harris. Did you have her
attached?
Can you tell me anything? Is she
okay? Like I said, we'll get down to the
PD and we'll maybe But why was she in I
don't even know. Never mind. Okay. Okay.
I don't even know if something's wrong
with me cuz I don't even care. I'm I'm
tripping about a mother that I know it
wasn't a raccoon. It was not
You're taking me to the hospital,
correct? Yes, ma'am.
Okay, but why in handcuffs? Well, XX
that's procedure. Well, no, because I
placed you under arrest for the DUI.
A DUI? The suspicion of Yeah, suspicion
of DUI. Oh, because I couldn't walk the
line and then what I saw in your eyes
and your breath. Yo, it I was just
nervous cuz I ain't even had no drinks
like that. But okay, I understand.
That's why we're going to give you some
more tests. Okay.
Okay. You said I got a DUI because of my
nervousness.
No, because of what I noticed during the
uh feeling soiety tests.
I'm sorry I didn't hear you because of
what I noticed during sobriety test. Oh,
cuz I was nervous. I'm
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sorry. But I will get to go potty
instead of peeing on myself. Yes, ma'am.
Okay, that's all that matter.
a fresh
start. Got to find out what's going on
cuz I know I wasn't drunk. Whatever. I
had a couple of drinks. I ain't going to
lie. But now no
drunk, but I got to go to the
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bathroom. But you only gave me that
drunk because I couldn't walk, right?
It's like we talked about. So, no, I'm
just asking. Yeah, cuz I'm I swear to
God, I'm just worried about the deer or
whatever the it was, but when I looked
at my truck, it was no deer.
Shabria is taken to a hospital where
investigators will soon reveal the
tragic reality of the situation to her.
Take a deep breath for me.
Baby, I
can't. We were just
here. I thought it was just an animal,
but now I know it's not cuz
y'all, but will you uh What's your first
name? I just want to make sure I call
it. Shria. Yay. My name is Mike and this
is
S. Okay. Take a deep breath for us. We
got We want to ask you some questions
and if you have questions of us, you
feel free to ask us. Okay. It was the
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Shria S's gonna S's going to read you
something. Okay, then we're going to
talk to you. Okay.
Will you take a deep breath for me?
Hey, Sabria, sit up. I don't want you to
hyperventilate, girl.
Where's my mom? Please just give me my
mom. There was no animal. It was no
animal. Shabri, I don't know where your
mom is at. Is your mom here? My mama's
supposed to be here. Please.
Please get my mom.
Please. What? No animal. All right,
Shabria.
Hey, will you calm down for a second?
S's going to read you something. Okay.
All right. Take a deep breath. Hey, take
a deep breath. Put your hands on top of
your head like this. That's not going to
do, baby. I need my Bible. All right.
Get that. But right now, my mom can't be
in here. Uh, no. You're an adult.
Sh. Just hear me out. Okay. Okay, baby.
It was no animal. We'll get We'll get
through this. Okay. No, sweetie. It was
no animal. It wasn't an animal.
Oh my god. Do it. Hey, Shabria. So, I
have to I have
Hey, just like the other officer said.
Okay.
I can't I
can't no dog. It was no cat. It was no
raccoon. I've been through enough
deaths. Let me tell you something. When
I was on strike, when I was on strike, a
man got killed right in front of me. He
walked out on the highway. When I was on
strike, I'm sorry. Next, a detective
read Shabria her Miranda writes. You
understand how I read it to you? I do. I
think
Where's my mom? Please. Your mom is at
the police department. Okay. She can't
come up here, sweetie. No, we'll get
you. We'll we'll we'll get you in
contact with your mom here in a little
bit. Okay. I promise. Please. You don't
understand what I've
been. It's not an animal. Y'all
understand? It's not an animal. And I've
been through so much.
Go ahead. Okay. Sir, if you understand
everything that I just read to you, I'm
not going to sign nothing. You're not
going to sign anything? No, sweetie. Cuz
right now,
so I get it. You You don't
You don't want to?
No, I'm not going to sign nothing. I'm
not going, baby. I'm not going to sign
nothing. understand. Yeah. Wait.
I would like I would like when you tell
me somebody died. Okay. Thank you
though. You understand your rights
though. Correct. I don't even No, I
don't understand nothing right now. Just
come on. Everybody need to talk to me.
Okay. Shabria. Hey. Hey girl.
Would you look at me for a second?
Please. I can't. Don't tell me nobody.
I've already been through enough. Hey
Shabria. Yes. Take a deep breath. I'm
ready. Okay, I understand. To the
bathroom on my cell right here. Hey.
Hey, real quick. Hey, baby. I'm right
here. You look at me. I'm not. Hey, will
you just take a deep breath for me?
Okay. You understand what Sal You
understand what S read to you, right?
No. You don't understand. You don't
understand your rights. Yes, I know my
rights. Okay. You understand what he
said? You understand your rights? Like
you have the right to remain You read
your You have the right to remain
silent.
Somebody died. Somebody did die. Whoa.
And we just need to talk to you, okay?
Hey, Shabria. Obviously, you weren't out
there trying to hurt somebody, okay? You
thought it was an
But we have to figure some things out.
Okay.
We have to figure that out on your end.
Okay. Where's my mom? Please can my mom
be here with me? You're an adult, okay?
You're the same age as me. Okay. So,
ordering me. You I think you're about 6
months older than me. Okay. So, you
understand what's you understand your
rights? Okay. Cuz we're going to ask you
a couple questions about what what you
were doing tonight. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Detectives eventually calm the suspect
down enough to ask her a few questions.
Let's see what she has to say. Were you
the only one in your vehicle tonight?
Yes. You were all there by yourself?
Yes. All right. Are you familiar that on
this new bridge there's a walkway? No.
Um I'm just used to getting off um on
this main entrance that takes you to
River Drive. We curve around cuz it's
it's like different now to me. Yeah.
When when you're coming from Davenport
and you're coming into Bondor and you
got to kind of loop around.
No. And you get on the new bridge. you
know.
So,
all I know is it's different period cuz
I don't even mess with that bridge
period. If I don't got to, I don't go
across it and I never have because I
never like that bridge actually. I'm
scared of bridges. Yeah. I watch you
notice the bridge the part of bridge
that you were on today that it wasn't
lit up. Yes. This side it's not but that
side is. Yeah. The other side was lit
up. The side you were on was not lit up.
No. Did you notice any like lane lane
use markings? No, baby. I just know that
I got to get off to get on River Drive
and that's where I was at. I took my
curb like I usually do, but it's a
little different, but I took my curb
like I usually do. Do you remember when
you got off that there was no uh no
lights controlling the part of the
bridge that you got off on, but there
was some next to you? Not going to say
that. You don't remember? No. I just was
paying attention to everything. Do you
remember it being really narrow?
narrow. Yes, because I'm like, "What
the Sorry for my language." No, you're
good. I swear I swear from time to time,
three times a year, I swear.
Yes, it it it I was that like did you
feel like it was very narrow in your
car? Very very cuz I'm like what the
like okay well whatever this is new blah
blah blah blah blah and then I I was
like why the this is lit up blah blah
blah. But like I said I did my usual. I
did my usual. That was the thing. I did
my usual. So, you noticed that the part
you were on wasn't lit up. It's It was
not lit up. Okay. But the other part of
the bridge was lit up over there. Yeah.
To your So, I'm on my left on the driver
side on the right. Yes. All that All
that is pretty. Yeah. It's all lit up
pretty. Mhm. And then your part was very
narrow. The concrete concrete on both
concrete. You got to be careful over
there. Yeah. And that's what made me
more aware, like I said, cuz I don't
even come across I don't even go across
the bridge, period, whether it's going
or coming. And I apologize. I did ask
this before, but are you familiar with
the new bridge that there's a there's
there's three parts to the new bridge.
There's the Iowa bound, there's Illinois
bound, and then on the side of that
that's not lit up, there's a pedestrian
walk on the sidewalk. No, I
didn't. I don't know. Okay. Do you know
I'm not going to I'm not saying that. Do
you Did you know you were driving on the
sidewalk? Oh, no. Cuz I would have
noticed a side. You were on the
pedestrian part. I'm sorry. I got there.
Wait a minute. But she said she was I'm
not even going to say I I knew where I
was at cuz we I didn't even know there
was a sidewalk part to that. So, hold
on. I'mma correct myself. You know what
I'm saying? I knew that. Like I said,
there was an exit because it always says
River Drive and then it says something
else. I always know I took the river
front maybe. Whatever. I get off on
that. I've never seen something that say
sidewalk or nothing like that. I'm not.
So, I'd be lying if I said I knew a
sidewalk was there. Shabria admits to
drinking some, but investigators suspect
there may be more to the story. So, you
had two shots of Titos. You had one
Bahama Mama while you were at at your
friend's bar open. Yes. Okay. How much
what else did you have? Nothing.
Nothing. Did you eat anything? No. When
was the last time you had eaten?
My baby wanted uh Papa John's. Papa
John's. We eat Papa John's. Where did
you eat Papa John's at? Oh, they they
brought it to our crib. I mean our
house. I'm sorry.
I I don't know that about five six I
ordered Papa John. They delivered it to
our house.
So then you stayed at your at your uh
friend's bar for how long? Oh, maybe an
hour if that. I didn't stay that long
cuz I was supposed to be home before
before time. Had to be with my baby.
That that'd be my thing. I got to be
home with my baby. I don't get much time
with my son. Moments later, Shabria asks
investigators to reveal the scope of the
incident. Oh my god, I need my
mom. What happened? Just come on. Come
on. Break it to me. Well, you can talk
to your mom.
I'm going away. Are you aware that a kid
a kid died?
Um, so say your first name again.
Shabria. Shabria. So you after After
we're done here, you're you're going to
be arrested today, okay? And you're
going to be charged with reckless
homicide. You're driving a vehicle and
you struck three people. Three. One's
dead, one's going to die, and the other
one's critically
injured. That that part of the bridge
that you were driving on, that's a
sidewalk. That's not the bridge. Cars
can't drive on there. So, you were
driving on, we call it's a pedestrian
walkway.
So, where you drove? Y'all got the
cameras on that? We do.
So, where's this where where is this
part at? So, you're telling me I was
driving on another side of the road
supposed to be the Yeah. So, the bridge,
there's the Iowa bound, Illinois bound.
Those are separated. There's a gap.
They're separated by concrete and
they're also separated by water.
And then to the west of that, to the
west of the Illinois bound that's also
separated by barriers and also separated
by a gap which you go down to the water.
There's a pedestrian walkway that they
built on the new I74 bridge and you were
driving on the walkway. I was on there
and y'all seen it. I have not I have not
seen the No, they seen it. Yeah, that's
where the kids are at. No, they seen it.
They're going to see it. It'll be on
camera. Okay, that's what I'm asking
you. It's on camera. It will be on
camera.
So, you're being charged with aggravated
DUI resulting in death and reckless
homicide. Okay. All right. So, you're
going to be held today and you won't see
a judge until tomorrow, which is Monday,
at 1:00. Okay. All right. So, you're
going to be in the Rock Island County
Jail. Okay. You understand? Yep. Okay.
And they seen that on camera? I have not
seen on camera yet, but it will be.
There's cameras up there. So, one more
time, baby.
Where the bridge is at. This what I was
asking you. Yeah. Where the bridge was
at, I was driving where I shouldn't have
been driving. That's why it was narrow
to you. Cuz that's a sidewalk. Remember
when you said it was narrow? Yeah.
That's cuz that's a sidewalk. Cars
aren't supposed to be up there.
Investigators later identify the victims
as 21-year-old Ethan Gonzalez, who died
on the scene, 18-year-old Anthony
Castanetta, who later died in a hospital
as a result of his injuries, and a
22-year-old man who suffered critical
injuries but survived.
I killed somebody's baby.
I killed somebody, baby.
If you want to go in there, come on in
the back door. Okay. Okay. Don't open
the back door.
I killed somebody's baby.
I heard it. It just It's been so broken
out there. Yeah. Um,
so I smell their arms.
Shabria was booked for two counts of
reckless homicide, three counts of
aggravated DUI, three counts of
aggravated reckless driving, and more
traffic related charges. Did you talk to
your son, Shabria?
Is he all right?
I killed somebody's baby.
I killed somebody's baby.
No.
And he's not going to be all right
without me. I killed somebody's
baby. I killed somebody's baby. Do you
understand?
I know. I killed somebody's baby. What
you're going through, but I killed
somebody's baby. You said the walkway
was right there and I wasn't supposed to
be driving there on the bridge and it
was a baby and I killed somebody's baby.
I killed somebody's baby and now look at
my baby and he'll be without
me. I killed somebody's baby and now
look at my
baby. Oh my
god. Come
on. Come on, baby.
Court records show Shabria later
accepted a deal and pleaded guilty to
the lesser charge of aggravated DUI
while the other charges were dismissed.
She was sentenced to 20 years behind
bars.
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