This from KVAL‘s website in Eugene:
ALBANY, Ore. – A Salem woman is on trial in Linn County for the deaths of two members of the Eugene Symphony.
Fivea Sharipoff, 26, at left, is charged with manslaughter, assault and driving under the influence after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 5 last year.
The crash killed Kjersten Oquist and Angela Svendsen, both members of the Eugene Symphony.
Jury selection began Monday, and the district attorney started making the state’s case on Tuesday.
The DA finished calling witnesses Wednesday morning, and the defense called its first witness in the afternoon. The family of Angela Svendsen said that’s a couple days faster than they were originally told by the DA’s office.
The prosecution called about 25 witnesses, including paramedics, state police, at least one person from the eugene symphony and employees at the Abbey’s pizza where the prosecution contends Sharipoff was drinking.
Sheripoff is out on bail. She and the people walking with her had no comment.
Friends and family of the women killed in the accident gathered outside the courtroom after today’s proceedings. Svendsen’s husband said it was difficult to relive the accident in the courtroom.
One witness was called to the stand in Sherifpoff’s defense, who testified about the two of them drinking at an Abby’s pizza the night of the accident. The other witnesses for the defense were not able to make it today cause the trial is moving faster than expected. The court will not be in session tomorrow but will resume on Friday.
Video coverage can be found at the story’s page on KVAL’s website.
Photo of the defendant, Favea Sharipoff, aged 26:
Photo: KVAL, Eugene.
2 replies on “svendsen/oquist trial in session”
This woman is a worthless piece of excrement. The only way she should be released to society is if she
a. Learns how to play the violin and teaches and mentors all of Angela’s students.
b. Pays part of Kjersten’s mortage so that her family doesn’t go homeless. – KJ was the family’s sole income at the time.
c. Compensates both families for the incomes they would have earned in their lifetime.
In short this woman will never be able to undo the damage she has caused.
Her friends laud her abilities as a single mother. What the hell is a single mother doing out drunk at 3 am.
Frankly she is a detriment to society and even more than a year later I am still enraged that this bitch was allowed to drink and drive after a first offense. These two ladies were my friends. Fivea Shripoff deserves to have done to her what she did to them. Frankly, justice would be having her strapped in a chair with a gun pointed towards her head so that she is forced to view the bullet that will kill her just as my friends were forced to face death head on. This woman is a coward and I hope she feels sorry that she is a murderess, not just that she had to go to jail. I hope I don’t run into her, because who knows what I’ll do. I hope she is released when she is old and gray and can no longer control her bowls or enjoy life.
It does still hurt.
My daughter was one of Angela’s students and did her Junior h.s. project on drunk drivers and their sentencing as a result of this. She went and interviewed a judge in Vancouver on the topic too.
I drove past Angela’s house the other night. It has been re-landscaped and is up for sale. It looks lovely. I did feel a pang of hurt though, recalling the burgundy walls, her dogs, and listening to Angela teach my daughter, and the laughter ringing out from that little room.
I sure wish I could afford to buy that little house filled with music over the years. It deserves to have more music in it.
http://www.c21bestrealty.com/properties/residential/8045521
RE: Sharipoff.
I just don’t understand how a mother can share 4 pitchers of beer with one other person then get in a car to drive and think it is okay to do. Particularly when that person has already had a DUI and gone through DUI education-reform. Addictive behaviour? Sure, but in this day and age with all the help available, that just doesn’t cut it anymore. No excuse.