Coroner:Wyoming Crash That Killed 5 A Murder-suicide

Authorities say a head-on crash that killed five people in central Wyoming last week wasn't an accident but a suicide that resulted in the deaths of four others.

The crash happened four miles south of Lander on Nov. 10.

Fremont County Coroner Ed McAuslan tells KOVE-KDLY Radio (http://bit.ly/rCrftN) that 17-year-old Matthew Denton deliberately turned the Chevrolet Suburban he was driving into the other lane.

The Suburban crashed head-on into a 2005 Dodge Caravan minivan. The wreck killed everybody in the minivan: 41-year-old Corina Surrell, her ex-husband Arvin Surrell, their 25-year-old son Ethan, and his 21-year-old girlfriend Melinda Escamilla.

The Surrells lived in Fort Washakie.

McAuslan says authorities determined the crash was intentional after inspecting a vehicle data recording device in the Suburban and based on other findings from their investigation.