MONROE COUNTY, Mich. (FOX 2) - Marshella Chidester's Swan Boat Club trial got underway Monday with jury selection and testimony from those who witnessed the deadly Monroe County crash and aftermath.

Marshella Chidester crashed her vehicle into the Swan Boat Club in April 2024 while a children’s birthday party was going on inside. Chidester was found guilty on two counts of second-degree ...

The Swan Boat Club did not immediately return the Free Press' request for comment Wednesday. Andrea Sahouri covers criminal justice for the Detroit Free Press. She can be contacted at 313-264-0442 ...

Marshella Chidester, the woman charged in the Swan Boat Club crash that killed two young children in Berlin Township in April, was bound over for trial on Thursday. Watch Now .

Law enforcement said Marshella Chidester had a blood alcohol level of 0.18 when she drove an SUV through a wall of the Swan Boat Club during a child's birthday party.

Chidester, who served as commodore of the Swan Boat Club in 2017 and lives 200 yards from the club, has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of operating under the ...

On April 20, 2024, Chidester allegedly crashed 25 feet into a building at the Swan Boat Club in Berlin Township, about 30 miles south of Detroit, according to Monroe County Sheriff Troy Goodnough.

The driver in the deadly Swan Boat Club crash, Marshella Chidester, sat down exclusively with 7 News Detroit to share what happened from her point of view after she ran her car into a children’s ...

Marshella Chidester looks at photos of Alanah and Zayn Phillips, who were killed at the Swan Boat Club last April, during her trial at the Monroe County Courthouse in Monroe on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

A lawyer for nine victims of Newport's Swan Boat Club tragedy in a news conference Wednesday described the suffering his clients have endured since the crash as "horrible, completely indescribable ...

A lawyer for nine victims of Newport's Swan Boat Club tragedy in a news conference Wednesday described the suffering his clients have endured since the crash as "horrible, completely indescribable ...