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Charges Dropped Against Shelby Wood | Lake Charles News
Shelby Wood, initially charged with DWI and vehicular homicide after a fatal crash in September 2025, has been cleared by prosecutors who couldn’t prove her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Her defense highlighted two separate crashes that night, emphasizing she was involved in the second one after vehicles were already stopped on a dark, unlit road with no shoulder — conditions her attorney says are dangerously unsafe. Wood cooperated fully with police, passed sobriety tests, and was never impaired — yet still arrested and jailed, despite an initial press release misstating her test results…
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