Clarke County officials charge 3 men in fatal bus accident

CLARKE COUNTY, Alabama 
Three men have been arrested and charged with obstructing the investigation into a fatal accident that killed a member of the Southern Choctaw High School football team, Clarke County Sheriff Ray Norris said Tuesday.
Wayland Cartez Moore, 21, of Mobile; Brandon Randolph Jackson, 21, and Terrick Lashaun McDonald, 18, both of Jackson, Ala., are charged with first-degree hindering prosecution, Norris said. All three were passengers in a car that authorities said collided with a school bus early Saturday morning at U.S. 84 and Ala. 69, authorities said.
One student, 15-year-old Otties William Brewer III of Silas, identified as the team manager, was killed in the crash. Officials said that 34 others, including several players, were injured.
Alabama State Troopers and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation have not released details about the crash.
After the accident, three of the men tried to flee the scene, Norris said. Tracking dogs from Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore were brought in to search for the men. McDonald was taken into custody by a Choctaw County deputy who was escorting the team.
Moore and Jackson were taken into custody after investigators found them at a night club about two miles west of Coffeeville, Norris said.
A fourth person riding in the car was injured in the wreck and taken to a hospital in Montgomery, he said.
Authorities are still trying to determine which of the four men was the driver.
The four men occupied a 1999 Nissan Maxima sport sedan that came to the intersection and ran the stop sign at U.S. 84, slamming into the bus and turning it upside down, Alabama State Troopers have said.
The crash was reported at 12:07 a.m., officials said. Southern Choctaw was heading back to Gilbertown after playing Flomaton High School.
Norris said that the deputies learned that there is video of the accident, captured by a camera at the gas station near where the accident occurred.
Norris said that the men could be facing more charges. Officials have not determined if alcohol was a factor in the accident.