A woman in the US has been jailed for life for killing four people including an Indian management student in 2015.
26-year-old Adacia Chambers pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree murders and 39 counts of assault and battery, Associated Press reported.
It was alleged that she purposely steered her car around a police barricade and ploughed it into the crowd watching a homecoming parade in Oklahoma. Four people were killed and several other were treated for injuries.
Among the victims was 23-year-old Nikita Prabhakar who had arrived from Mumbai to study MBA just three months ago.
In the court, Chambers showed sympathy for her victims.
“If only I could change the past. My prayers are always with the victims. I was suffering from psychosis that day,” she said in the court.
Her attorney said she pleaded guilty at the start of the court proceedings to save the victim’s families a lengthy trial which could take months.
Chambers will now serve four concurrent life sentences for the murder counts, and 39 additional 10-year terms to run concurrently for each assault charge, Reuters reported quoting court documents.
The other victims who lost their lives included an elderly couple and a two-year-old child.
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