Police in Grandview, Missouri were called to an underage party. They left the people at the party. Police report states they were extremely intoxicated. My son, age 17, was dead two and a half hours later, driving home. The underage girl hosting the party Oliva Nelson Greene paid a fine of three hundred and twenty dollars.
Why is this important?
My son Matthew Carr was at an underage party. The legal age for drinking in Missouri is twenty one. He was seventeen. The police left them at the party. No one tried to take his keys. The police did not take him to jail or call parents. Two and a half hours later he was dead, as he hit a tree driving home.