Posted: Jan 20, 2021 7:24 PM MT | Last Updated: January 21
Marion Rickett-Beebee is accused of careless driving, after she struck two women with a vehicle in a south Edmonton apartment parking lot. Doreen French, 85, died from her injuries.(Josee St-Onge/CBC)
As they often did during nicer weather, Wayne and Michael Cherrington were preparing to sit and sip wine from the enclosed balcony of their fourth-storey suite, one night in October 2018.
But their peaceful evening tradition was interrupted by tragedy.
"My God Wayne, she doesn't see them, she's going to hit them," Michael, 78, remembers calling out in the moments before a vehicle hit 85-year-old Doreen French and her daughter in the parking lot of the Heritage Park Towers housing complex in south Edmonton.