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AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. ALL RIGHT. WELL, ALSO NEW TONIGHT, EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY FROM PARENTS AND WITNESSES OF A KEOKUK COUNTY HAYRIDE CRASH THAT INJURED SEVERAL MIDDLE SCHOOLERS. PROSECUTORS SAY DAVID HETI WAS DRUNK AND TRIED TO COVER UP HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE CRASH BECAUSE HE WAS A KEOKUK SHERIFF’S DEPUTY AT THE TIME AND THE DRIVER, DANIEL BREWBAKER, HAS ALREADY PLEADED GUILTY TO CHILD ENDANGERMENT CHARGES. ����vlog BEAU BOWMAN WAS IN THE COURTROOM FOR DAY TWO OF THE TRIAL. HE JOINS US LIVE NOW FROM OSKALOOSA, WHERE THE TRIAL IS BEING HELD. BO. YEAH. JODI. AURORA. THE TESTIMONY COMES FROM AN ADULT WHO WAS HELPING OUT AT THE PARTY. SHE DRESSED IN A COSTUME TO HELP SCARE THE KIDS, THAT KIND OF THING. BUT WHEN SHE HEARD THERE WAS A CRASH OUT ON THE HAYRACK RIDE, SHE DROVE OUT THERE WITH HER BOYFRIEND. AND THAT’S WHERE SHE SAW ALL THE KIDS SCREAMING AND CRYING. THERE WERE KIDS EVERYWHERE, LIKE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DITCH. RIHANNA. ROB IS A COLLEGE STUDENT WHO WAS HELPING THE FAMILY PUT ON THE HALLOWEEN PARTY AND HAYRACK RIDE IN OCTOBER OF 2023. SHE WAS AT THE PARK WHERE THE PARTY TOOK PLACE AND SAYS SOME ADULTS WERE DRINKING BUSCH LIGHT AND FIREBALL, INCLUDING DANIEL BRUBAKER. THE HAYRACK RIDE DRIVER, WHEN SHE HEARD OF THE CRASH. SHE DROVE WITH HER BOYFRIEND TO THE SCENE. SHE SAYS SHE AND BRUBAKER WERE NOT HELPING KIDS INJURED IN THE DITCH, BUT RATHER DISCUSSING HOW THEY WOULD TELL THEIR STORY TO INVESTIGATORS. HOW FAST ARE WE GOING TO SAY WE WERE GOING? DO YOU REMEMBER HIM SAYING ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT HIS EMPLOYMENT? YEAH, I REMEMBER LATER ON HE WAS PACING AND SAYING, OH MY GOD, MY JOB. PARENTS BROKE DOWN IN TEARS DISCUSSING THE CALLS THEY RECEIVED FROM THEIR KIDS. AFTER THE CRASH. HE STARTED CRYING. HE WAS MOSTLY CONCERNED THAT THE GIRLS WERE HURT AND HE DIDN’T KNOW HOW BAD IT WAS, AND THEIR CHILDREN DISCUSSED THE ONGOING MENTAL CHALLENGES THEY STILL FACE. NEARLY TWO YEARS LATER. FOR SOME, THAT MEANS AVOIDING GRAVEL ROADS AND FEELING ANXIOUS IN THE CAR. I STRUGGLE TO GET IN A CAR FOR A BIT. I STILL CAN’T REALLY GO ON RUMBLE STRIPS. I GET SCARED. FOR OTHERS, THEY STILL HEAR THE SCREAMS OF THEIR FRIENDS AND THE SIRENS. IT WAS HARD TO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD AFTER LIKE AT NIGHT. I WOULD LIKE HOLD ON TO THE SIDE OF THE DOOR AND THE ARMREST AND JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE DIDN’T CRASH AT NIGHT AND JUST DURING THE DAY I WOULD JUST HEAR SIRENS IN MY HEAD. THE DEFENSE HAS NOT YET CALLED ANY OF THEIR WITNESSES. THEY WON’T UNTIL THE PROSECUTION WRAPS UP THEIR CASE. THEY MENTIONED IN THEIR OPENING STATEMENT, THOUGH, THAT THEY DON’T BELIEVE HATTIE IS AT FAULT FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. THE BLAME LIES SOLELY ON BRUBAKER. WE’RE LIVE I