CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming family was driving to a doctor’s appointment when a distraught teenager saw his chance in their headlights, authorities say. Matthew Denton throttled his SUV to 97 mph, steered into the opposite lanes, and kept his foot off the brake.
The head-on crash just after midnight Nov. 10 killed five people including 17-year-old Denton and four in a Dodge Caravan minivan: 41-year-old Corina Surrell-Norman; her ex-husband, Arvin Surrell; their 25-year-old son, Ethan Surrell; and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Melinda Escamilla.
Thursday’s announcement by the Wyoming Highway Patrol that the fiery wreck was a murder-suicide came a day after burial for the four in a tribal cemetery.
The Surrells were from Fort Washakie, population 1,700, on the nearby Wind River Indian Reservation. Escamilla was from Riverton, a town of about 11,000 surrounded by reservation lands. The Surrells were Eastern Shoshone and Escamilla was Northern Arapaho, the two tribes that share the reservation that covers about a third of Fremont County.
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