We want to see justice: Family, friends attend court date for triple fatal drunk driving suspect [Video]

Emotions were running high outside the Invermere Law Courts Monday, as family members and friends of three young men killed in an alleged drunk driving crash awaited the first court appearance for the suspect charged in their deaths.

Haley Jade Watson, who turns 23 this year, is accused of three counts of impaired driving causing death and three counts of dangerous driving causing death in the July 9, 2024 collision in B.C.’s Columbia Valley.

“I really needed to see Haley and I think she needed to see us and the grief she’s caused for so many people, friends, family,” said Janet Dahl-Freeman.

Her son Jackson Freeman, 25, from Sherwood Park, Alta., Gavin Murray, 21, of Wilmer, and Brady Tardif, 25, from Calgary died when the truck they were riding in went off the highway and down an embankment on Westside Road near Panorama Drive in Wilmer, B.C.

The small community lies between Radium and Invermere in the …