DWI charges filed in wrong-way Wentzville crash that killed 7-year-old boy

ST. CHARLES — A North County man was charged Monday with DWI in a crash on Interstate 70 in Wentzville that killed a 7-year-old boy from Kansas Cit...

August 23, 2023
1:04 AM

ST. CHARLES — A North County man was charged Monday with DWI in a crash on Interstate 70 in Wentzville that killed a 7-year-old boy from Kansas City .  Dioavian Cook, 24, of unincorporated St. Louis County, was charged in St. Charles County with DWI resulting in the death and two counts of DWI resulting in injury alleging that he was intoxicated when he caused an Aug. 12 crash that injured two adults and a 7-year-old boy. He was not yet in custody by Tuesday morning.  A Missouri Highway Patrol trooper wrote in charging documents that Cook was speeding at nearly 100 mph the wrong way down Interstate 70 near David Hoekle Parkway on the western edge of Wentzville about 3:30 a.

Erin Heffernan