By Laurel Droz
Staff Writer
Criminal charges will not be filed in relation to the snowmobile accident that resulted in the death of Brooks Patterson? son of Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson.
According to a press release from Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton, it was concluded that probable cause could not be shown in the accident.
Patterson, 28, died in the Feb. 10 accident on Lake Shinanguag.
Involved in the incident was Jason Anderson, 34, of Davison, whom, Swanson previously told The Citizen, was following another snowmobiler on the lake that evening. The person Anderson was trailing veered right, said Swanson, apparently to avoid a collision with another snowmobile driven by 48-year-old Robert Slade of Goodrich. Slade, who owns property on the lake, was sharing a snowmobile with Patterson. Anderson collided with Slade and Patterson.
‘The statute requires that we prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a snowmobile was operated in a careless and heedless manner in willful and wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others. Based on the investigation, there is insufficient evidence to meet that standard,? said Leyton in the release.
L. Brooks Patterson issued a statement expressing his displeasure with the findings.
‘I lost a beautiful boy and nobody is going to be held responsible,? said the elder Patterson.
‘That’s wrong.?