SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A 20-year-old Southwest Baptist University student has been charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of second-degree assault in a Dec. 3 accident in which three passengers were killed and he had been driving under the influence of alcohol.
Tyler L. Wasmer, 20, turned himself in Jan. 11, the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader reported.
Killed in the accident were Southwest Baptist University basketball players Gregory Germany, 22, and Mary Miller, 20, and Bryon Phillips, 27, husband of volleyball player Leslie Phillips.
Wasmer, a football player at SBU, and basketball player Jamie Roszell, 19, were seriously injured when a Jeep Cherokee driven by Wasmer ran off a state highway 10 miles north of Springfield, crashed into a tree and caught fire, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.
The News-Leader reported that court records indicate that Wasmer told a highway patrol officer the group had been drinking at an establishment where alcohol is served. Court records also indicate that Wasmer’s blood alcohol content was .102 percent, just over Missouri’s legal limit, the newspaper reported.
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