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.