{"id":133104,"date":"2026-03-08T23:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133104\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T23:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:17:18","slug":"man-charged-with-dui-in-deadly-2024-crash-on-parkway-east-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133104\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with DUI in deadly 2024 crash on Parkway East \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man is facing charges in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-killed-crash-parkway-east-pittsburgh\/SARLKIG4OFBFZAES2EKKLEDY3E\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-killed-crash-parkway-east-pittsburgh\/SARLKIG4OFBFZAES2EKKLEDY3E\/\">deadly crash on the Parkway East<\/a> in Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The single-vehicle crash happened around 12:30 a.m. near the city\u2019s Oakland neighborhood on Sept. 21, 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A passenger, 20-year-old Brooke Howard of Pitcairn, was declared dead on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Two other occupants were hurt in the crash, a second passenger and the driver, who Pennsylvania State Police said was suspected of intoxication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Saturday, state police filed charges against 24-year-old Jordan Isaiah Ha Bowyer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to the criminal complaint, troopers responding to the crash found multiple alcoholic beverage containers inside the vehicle\u2019s cabin and on the floor of the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators determined that the vehicle was traveling between about 81 and 87 miles per hour when the crash happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Witnesses on the Parkway told police that they saw the vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed, and they were worried it would hit their own vehicle, just before they saw it crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Howard was the vehicle\u2019s front seat passenger. The other passenger was sitting in the back and was seriously injured in the crash, suffering cuts, bruises and an amputated toe, the complaint says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">When interviewed at the hospital, the back seat passenger reportedly told police that the group was on their way to hang out in Mount Washington when they crashed. Bowyer had allegedly been drinking before picking up the passenger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Also at the hospital, police interviewed Bowyer, who said he started drinking after getting off work earlier in the evening, the complaint says. He claimed that the alcohol containers in the vehicle were old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to the complaint, Bowyer\u2019s blood alcohol content was above the legal limit, and he also tested positive for cannabinoids. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man is facing charges in connection with a deadly crash on the Parkway East in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20531,7011,1646,6889,3646,15133,4738,4029,4030,16830,7015,60,20532,2663,79,7017,7355,31,784,4031,4813,6753,7356,4033,7357,15217,7023,20533,107,4036,7024,7026,4369,14003,20534,1405,73,75,74,7031,2009,8574,4049,7033,12834,20535],"class_list":{"0":"post-133104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-3d","9":"tag-abstract","10":"tag-arrest","11":"tag-art","12":"tag-authority","13":"tag-backdrop","14":"tag-background","15":"tag-black","16":"tag-blue","17":"tag-blur","18":"tag-bright","19":"tag-business","20":"tag-button","21":"tag-car","22":"tag-city","23":"tag-color","24":"tag-cop","25":"tag-crime","26":"tag-criminal","27":"tag-dark","28":"tag-design","29":"tag-emergency","30":"tag-enforcement","31":"tag-equipment","32":"tag-flasher","33":"tag-front","34":"tag-glow","35":"tag-graphic","36":"tag-group","37":"tag-horizontal","38":"tag-illustration","39":"tag-light","40":"tag-lights","41":"tag-line","42":"tag-motion","43":"tag-night","44":"tag-pittsburgh","45":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","46":"tag-pittsburgh-news","47":"tag-shine","48":"tag-space","49":"tag-speed","50":"tag-spotlight","51":"tag-stage","52":"tag-texture","53":"tag-wallpaper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}