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Boy, 16, charged with murder and attempted murder

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Maddalyn Dailey, 17, and Isabell Hill, 16, were ‘inseparable’ best friends beginning their senior year of high school when they were struck and killed Maddalyn Dailey, 17, and Isabell Hill, 16, were ‘inseparable’ best friends beginning their senior year of high school when they were struck and killed A Southern California man has been charged with murder after a high-speed street race ended with two teenage girls dead, according to officials.

The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office announced last Friday that Easter was charged with two counts of murder in connection with the girls’ deaths. Street racing at 117 mph is a deliberate and extraordinarily dangerous choice that ended the lives of two young best friends, exposing his own 8-year-old child to that danger, and abandoning his child after the crash to flee the scene,” San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said in a statement.

The body of the dead man, who was 61, was found alongside his injured eight-year-old daughter at a house on Lisnahull Road on Saturday morning, The man's 48-year-old wife sustained non-life threatening injuries during the attack.

Easter and Sanchez, who was driving a Dodge Charger, were speeding through a residential neighborhood before crashing into the girls’ Acura that was entering an intersection, according to the California Highway Patrol. At the time of the crash, Easter had his 8-year-old child in the car, who was injured, according to officials.

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