UPDATE (6:15 p.m.): News 5 is continuing to gather information on a crash that killed a Mardi Gras queen. According to testimony from lead investigator James Welch, Spencer Strickland was traveling The woman killed by a driver who allegedly ran a red light over the weekend was a “truly special” Mobile Mardi Gras queen, according to the Mobile-Area Mardi Gras Association. MOBILE, Ala. - FOX10 News has new details on a deadly crash in Mobile that killed former Mobile Mardi Gras Queen Katherine Smith. Spencer Mobile, AL 36606 (251) 434-1010; Public File. The crash killed 38-year-old Katherine Smith. Smith was a member of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association and served as the MAMGA Court 2017 Queen. Surveillance video shows deadly 38-year-old Katherine Smith was killed in the crash, the driver of a pickup truck has been charged with manslaughter Former Mardi Gras Queen killed in weekend crash in News / Sep 9, 2024 / 06 UPDATE: A former Mardi Gras queen was killed after a weekend crash in Mobile. 38-year-old Katherine Smith was on Airport Boulevard around 12:30 Sunday morning when another driver struck her SUV MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — A judge set bond at $30,000 for a Mobile woman accused of killing a former Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association queen in an early Sunday morning crash on Airport Boulevard. It was captured on surveillance video. Mobile Police say Spencer Strickland was intoxicated, speeding, and ran a red light when she hit Katherine Smith. MOBILE, Ala. - The reckless manslaughter case against the driver in the crash that a killed former MAMGA Mardi Gras queen on Airport Boulevard in September is heading to a Mobile County grand jury. FULL STORY: Former Mardi Gras Queen killed in weekend crash in Mobile. WKRG Mobile. Tue, September 10, 2024 at 2:01 AM UTC. Strickland is facing reckless manslaughter charges in connection with a deadly crash that claimed the life of Katherine Smith, a member of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association who served as the Former Mardi Gras Queen killed in weekend crash in News / Sep 9, 2024 / 09:01 PM CDT It has been confirmed that the woman accused of killing 38-year-old Katherine Ashley Smith, was intoxicated Aliene Jenkins (Howard) served as the first Queen of The Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association in 1940. She is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Jenkins of Mobile. After graduating from Dunbar High School, she earned her B.S., A.A. and Educational Specialist degrees from Alabama State University. Mobile, Alabama is the mother of mystics, the original birthplace of Mardi Gras as we know it! Each year, the city and its surrounding communities come together for weeks of parades, masked balls, MoonPies and merry-making leading up to Fat Tuesday, a season that is collectively known as Mardi Gras. Just hours before she died, Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone performed for the last time at a Mardi Gras ball in Mobile on Friday evening. Sparkling in a black suit, the 63-year-old singer WKRG Mobile. Former Mardi Gras Queen killed in weekend crash in Mobile. Posted: September 10, 2024 | Last updated: September 10, 2024. It has been confirmed that the woman accused of killing 38 Mobile police arrested 37-year-old Spencer Strickland early Sunday morning on the grounds she ran a red light at the intersection of Airport Boulevard and McGregor Road after midnight and collided with 38-year-old Katherine Smith, who previously served as queen of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association (MAMGA) in 2017. Smith died from her injuries. Mardi Gras. Black History Month. Submit Photos or Videos. Spencer Strickland pleads not guilty in crash that killed former Mardi Gras queen. Published: Sep. 10, Mobile, AL 36606 (251) 434 Mardi Gras. Black History Month. Submit Photos or Videos. Mobile woman killed in traffic accident Sunday morning. Mobile, AL 36606 (251) 434-1010; Recently unsealed Federal Court documents allege that a current Mardi Gras Queen embezzled nearly $1.5 million from Crowder Gulf, a debris clean up company headquartered in Mobile. The filing in Queen Seline’s family members who have served as Mobile Carnival Association Monarchs include her cousin, Queen Sarah Sage Morrissette (Mrs. Ralph Preston Bolt, Jr.) with King Felix, John Patrick Courtney, III in 1980; her aunt, Queen Frances Leatherbury Williams, (Mrs. Harris Vaughan Morrissette) with her uncle, King Felix, Hiram Taylor Morrissette, Jr., in 1982; her cousin, Queen Ashley
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