Outrage after human films of fatal car wreck (CNN)
This man has filmed a fatal car accident instead of helping Then Ohio police arrested him.
When Paul Pelton saw the scene of a fatal car accident this week, he didn t try to comfort the victims, who were both teenagers, and it didn t help, authorities say instead, police said, Pelton began filming the scene on his mobile phone.
Pelton, 41, now faces a misdemeanor charge of vehicle intrusion police have arrested Wednesday, according to reports, and he has since posted bail.
We sought to try to find anything to charge him, the Lorain Police Detective Buddy Sivert told Reuters noted that Pelton was accused of entering a crime scene, but not for the shooting of this taking place there, or to try to peddle images to news agencies It is not a crime to hold a camera where a child is dying or trying to sell it.
After a Honda sedan flew over the tracks and hit a house Monday, Pelton filmed later on his cell phone camera, reports the Media Group Northeast Ohio.
The accident happened in Lorain, Ohio, which is about 30 miles from Cleveland.
Others who were in the area tried to help get teens but Pelton didn t offer assistance.
He just after the accident, before the lifeguards or the police arrived, said Sivert.
According to a police report cited by the Group of northeast Ohio Pelton media can be heard in the video referring to boys trapped in the car as fools.
He opened a rear door and bent down to film the boys and then walked around the front door as he continued to record, the Group Media reports at no time did he try to help either boys according to the report.
The driver and passenger were both 17 One died in an Ohio hospital; the condition of the other victim was not immediately known, according to the Media Group.
Pelton posted the video on Facebook, police allege, and then tried to sell it to several TV channels.
Denise White, who lives on the street where the accident occurred, told CBS affiliate WOIO she was trying to help the victims and saw the Pelton shooting.
To make this video and put it on Facebook, just shows no principles It's disgusting, she told the station probably the mother of the deceased boy had to see that, White said.
In a subsequent video by Facebook WOIO unearthed Pelton said he was sorry.
I want to offer a public apology to the families of children who have been injured or died in the car accident, he said, according to the station, I never intend to be a video that came through a gory video I wanted to put the video out there so other children could see and learn from the speed error and careless driving.
Pelton said he didn t try to sell the video to new stations, but was seeking charitable donations in exchange for the video.
But at least a Fox subsidiary output Cleveland WJW reported otherwise.
Police said he posted the video on Facebook and tried to sell it to at least two news stations including Fox 8 News, but we declined.
The Lorain Police Department would like to remind citizens that they are allowed and encouraged to help each other in emergencies if they can do it safely, and what makes aid or comfort to a young man dying and seriously wounded friend is a worthy and kindly act, the ministry said in a news people are not, however, allowed to cross into the vehicle of a person criminally and without authorization the cause singular appearance to film the last moments of a young man for profit.
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