Talk:Edward Buttrey

Ed Buttrey guilty of killing a 5-yr-old girl on Oct. 13, 2000 ==

Ed Buttrey was the driver in a vehicular accident in Bigfork, Montana, on October 13, 2000 whereby he and his sister were looking for a CD in a box on the dash when they inadvertently hit a 5 yr old girl named Arianna Christine Ashley who was waiting at her bus stop to cross the street to her mother and 9-yr-old brother. Ironically, Buttrey was in the young girl's kindergarten class that day passing out plastic fire hats (that had no safety straps); and was there to talk about safety. That same day, the hat flew from little Arianna's head at the bus stop and she and her brother had crossed highway 93 to retrieve it. Arianna was waiting at the white line for her mother to give her the Ok to cross when Buttrey drove by in his pickup truck and killed the girl instantly. There was a two-year wrongful death proceeding upon which Buttrey was found guilty, after claiming, amongst other allegations, that he was trying to avoid road construction -- though an affidavit from the Kalispell Department of Transportation verified that there was none either way of the accident site. Due to the fact that he was a volunteer fireman (who, according to his precinct captain, only volunteered eleven hours per year),and the stigma put upon firefighters after 9/11, Buttrey was never charged with negligent homicide, though the Ashley family still insists such charges should have been filed. What's more, Buttrey never went to the hospital to see if the child lived; but instead went on to the Bigfork homecoming football game only hours later where he assisted the Bigfork team. The Ashley family still possess the unrepentant letter Buttrey wrote Arianna's siblings, which the Ashleys and their lawyer had hoped would help in the healing process. This is all verifiable through court records of Kalispell County. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.153.98.40 (talk) 06:22, 3 December 2017 (UTC)