Posted on 03/12/2008 1:29:03 PM PDT by kingattax
DALLAS — A woman threw her two young children from a freeway overpass during Wednesday's morning rush before leaping off herself, police said, and all three somehow survived the 22-foot fall into traffic.
Khandi Busby, 27, and her sons, ages 8 and 6, were in stable condition at Dallas hospitals, said Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse, a police spokesman. They are well enough to speak with investigators, police said.
All three landed on concrete in the far left lane of westbound Interstate 30 around 6:30 a.m., when commuters from Dallas' east suburbs are heading downtown, Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Gil Cerda said.
"It was really miraculous that we didn't have some fatalities with this incident," Cerda said. "At this particular time, there is very heavy traffic and it is fast moving."
Police believe Busby and the 8-year-old were struck by cars, which managed to avoid the younger brother. There were no car accidents on the interstate below, Cerda said.
Janse said the mother and her sons were in a vehicle with her father when they stopped for gas. The woman took her two sons to the overpass while her father was paying for gas, Janse said.
Her father had to make a U-turn to follow her in the car, but by the time he drove up Busby "had picked up the kids and thrown herself over," Cerda said.
"She was not fleeing for her safety," Cerda said. "She just threw them over and decided to throw herself over."
Busby could face two charges of attempted capital murder, Cerda said.
"I don't really have an explanation" for how the three survived, Janse said.
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I have no sympathy at all for her. I do for her husband and her kids.
Really hasn’t been a good last couple of weeks for blacks in the news, has it? Two college shootings and now this insanity?
Sounds like she has a serious hormonal problem.....LOL!
Too bad she didnt just try to off herself.I hope the kids are going to be fine.
Well at least, unlike the case of the white Andrea Yates, the kids survived.
What makes you think there’s a husband?
father <> husband
not equal
I guess I read ‘father’ as the father of the kids. I see it’s the gal’s father.
I revise my comment to say I have sympathy for her father and her kids. Not her.
see post 11
It’s a cry for help.
I hope you are being sarcastic. You can say that about any awful behavior. People take others hostage because it’s a cry for help. That’s liberal psychobabbble talk. It’s how we’ve become a nation of wimps and whiners.
Need to throw her off again.
Mom? No. That’s an abuse of one of the most beautiful words in any language. There are many words that accurately be applied to her, but none of them belong on this respectable forum.
Muslim stripper name?
She’s now been charged with Attempted Capital Murder. x2.
The aunt who walked into traffic in Mass. with her niece and nephew a month or so back, kiling all three, was white. The father who threw his four children in the river in Louisiana was Asian. It’s a big country.
that sounds about right
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