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BALLARD, Uintah County — A Fort Duchesne woman was charged Tuesday with hitting and killing a teen bicyclist while driving impaired.
Monie Rosę Manning-Miller, 34, is charged in 8th District Court with negligently operating a vehicle resulting in death, a second-degree felony, and having an open container of alcohol in her vehicle, a class C misdemeanor.
On Saturday, Manning-Miller was driving in the area of of 1500 East and 2000 South in Ballard when she hit 15-year-old Domanic Charles Cole who was riding a bicycle with a friend, according to police. Manning-Miller told police she "tried to avoid hitting the bicyclist but couldn't go into the northbound lane because there was a car traveling northbound. Monie hit the juvenile on the passenger side of the vehicle and based on the evidence it appeared that the juvenile hit the bumper, hood, and the top corner of the passenger side of the windshield," a police booking affidavit states.
Domanic's friend said he turned around when he heard the impact, "and as he looked back he saw (Domanic) up in the air above the car and fall to the ground," the affidavit states.
Domanic suffered a traumatic head injury and was flown to Primary Children's Hospital where he passed away.
Uintah County sheriff's deputies questioning Manning-Miller noted a "strong" odor of alcohol coming from her breath and "observed a liquor bottle on the back seat and some open beer cans on the back seat passenger floor board," according to charging documents filed Tuesday. She was placed under arrest. Manning-Miller was previously convicted of DUI in 2017.
A viewing for Domanic will be held Friday at Hullinger Mortuary in Roosevelt followed by a funeral on Saturday at a stake center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Roosevelt.
"There are no words to describe this tragedy and what it has put the family through," according to a GoFundMe* fundraiser to help the family.
"I honestly can't explain the heartache that me and my family are going through right now," an emotional Raelynn Cole, Domanic's older sister, told KSL-TV.
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