MOORE, Okla. — Two students are dead after police say a driver crashed into a group of students running in Moore on Monday.
Police say Max Townsend drove a truck onto the sidewalk and hit the group of six students.
Rachel Freeman, a senior, died Monday after the crash and authorities announced sophomore Yurudia Martinez died from her injuries Tuesday.
Officials say the crash happened around 3:30 p.m. when the track team was out for a run outside of the school.
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Police say Townsend kept driving -- hitting a few other cars and a mailbox before trying to run.
Authorities arrested him a few blocks away.
Townsend is being held in jail on one count of first-degree manslaughter and six counts of leaving the scene of an injury accident.
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