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Metcalf, Schier Jr. to Face Charges in Fatal May Boat Crash

By on December 8, 2012
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TWO BURLINGTON MEN HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH FELONIES AFTER AUTHORITIES ALLEGE THEY WERE DRIVING JON-BOATS WHILE DRUNK, WHICH CAUSED A COLLISION ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN MAY THAT KILLED FOUR PEOPLE.

TWENTY-ONE-YEAR OLD JOE SCHIER JR. AND 22-YEAR-OLD DOUG METCALF WERE CHARGED FRIDAY WITH BOATING WHILE INTOXICATED CAUSING A DEATH AND FOUR COUNTS EACH OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER.

AUTHORITIES SAY THE MEN WERE SHUTTLING PARTIERS FROM AN ISLAND SANDBAR TO SHORE IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF MAY 19 WHEN THEIR BOATS CRASHED IN THE DARK.

KILLED WERE MATT HOUSE, JAKE BOYD, CAITLYN ATCHLEY, AND BLAKE EAKINS. ALL WERE IN THEIR EARLY 20S AND FROM BURLINGTON.