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The family of an Ellet teenager Tricia Powell killed while standing with her disabled car on I-76 Easter Weekend is reportedly suing the driver charged with killing her, and the bar he got drunk in, for continuing to serve him even though he was already intoxicated.

The Beacon Journal reports Charles Queer Jr. of Tallmadge and the owners of KC's Nashville Nights on West Wilbeth were named in the lawsuit.  Police say Queer tested .204, more than twice the legal limit of .08, early in the morning of March 27, 2016.

The lawyer for the Powell family says Queer was attending a music performance of a relative. Powell had been with her disabled vehicle when he struck her car. She later died of her injuries.

Queer faces aggravated vehicular homicide felony charges as well as three counts of operating a vehicle while impaired. His criminal defense lawyer says another attorney will handle the civil suit, which seeks $25,000 in damages.

A Tallmadge man is facing charges in a car crash that killed a 17-year-old Akron girl on Easter morning.

Police believe 63-year-old Charles Queer Jr. was driving drunk when he rear-ended Patricia Powell's car that was stopped on the shoulder at I-76 near the South Arlington Street exit in Akron.

Police said Powell was having car troubles and pulled over to the side of the road with her emergency flashers on. 

Authorities said Queer was intoxicated at the time of the crash, over two times the legal limit.

Queer has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, failure to control, OVI and OVI-BAC.

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