Police have charged Ronald Cooper, 68, with intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault. The crash also injured two teenagers in a third car. Police say Cooper rear –ended the Sedlmeier’s Toyota Echo and pushed it into the path of a Jeep Wrangler which broadsided the smaller car. Both vehicles landed flipped on their sides. Cooper’s car suffered only minor damage. The teens suffered minor injuries.

“I’ve never met anyone who gave so selflessly and who loved so passionately,” friend Melissa Arnold says of Melinda Sedlmeier. They were together at Crossroads Church in the Woodlands earlier Sunday morning.

“They were going home from church. And it’s hard,” she said. “We watched them get in their car. We watched them drive off. And we watched them go home. But we didn’t know they were truly going home,” she said professing her faith that the family went to heaven together. click here for complete story & video