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PRIVILEGED COLUMBIA PROTESTER WHO ‘KILLED’ ELDERLY COUPLE IN CRASH SHOULD BE IN
JAIL, NOT ON CAMPUS, FURIOUS FAMILY SAYS

By Chris Harris

Published April 21, 2024, 7:22 p.m. ET

An ultra-privileged protester who was busted at a Columbia University
anti-Israel encampment on Thursday should be in jail — not at an elite college —
says the niece of the elderly Vermont couple who were killed in a crash she
allegedly caused.

As a teenager, Isabel Jennifer Seward, 20, crossed the double line and collided
head-on with Chet and Connie Hawkins on Sept. 8, 2020, according to police
reports.

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“The only reason she wasn’t charged with murder is because she has a rich
daddy,” Eve Taylor, 49, claimed.

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Columbia protestor Isabel Seward was fined $220 for a fatal head-on crash in
2020. Laura Dickerman/Facebook
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Seward crossed a double line and collided head-on with another vehicle in
Vermont when she was 16. ABC10

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“She should be behind bars.”

Seward, the daughter of high-ranking UPS executive William J. Seward, was 16 at
the time and comes from a well-heeled family.

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When she was detained by the NYPD at Columbia on Thursday, she listed her home
address as a $2.2 million mansion in a tony section of northeast Atlanta.

Following the 2020 crash, Seward pleaded no contest to a civil traffic ticket
and was issued a $220 fine — which her mother paid, according to the Rutland
Herald.

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Connie and Chet Hawkins were killed in a head-on crash near their Vermont home
in 2020.

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Seward was not charged with any crime related to the crash, and a Vermont State
Police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment about
the case.

The Post’s calls for comment to Isabel Seward and her family were not returned.

Taylor said her aunt and uncle were high school sweethearts, who lived for years
in Charlotte, Vt.

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Protesters camped out on Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus on
April 18. Robert Miller

Police told local media at the time of the crash that Seward gave conflicting
answers about what happened leading up to the head-on crash, including whether
she had been texting.

However, police reports and crash scene photos indicate that her pickup truck
crossed the double line on US Route 7 in Charlotte, Vermont and hit Chet and
Connie head-on.

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“Her truck went up over the hood of their car, and crushed my aunt and uncle,”
Taylor said.

Connie, 72, died instantly, according to local media reports. A severely injured
Chet, 73, suffered “for several hours,” Taylor said, as first responders
struggled to free him from the mangled wreck.

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Eve Taylor, the niece of Chet and Connie Hawkins, wants Seward to be charged
with murder for the fatal collision.

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He died five hours later at a nearby hospital.

Seward’s case became a point of contention between Vermont State Police and the
Chittenden County prosecutor’s office, which was reportedly upset that the
department had released her name in a press release.

According to the Rutland Herald, state police were told by Chittenden County
State’s Attorney Sarah George not to include the then-teenager’s name, but the
department made her name public after a legal review, citing a wide range of
both department and state transparency and public records laws.

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Connie died instantly in the crash and Chet died five hours later in a hospital.

The Post’s revelation that Seward is back in the news has made Chat and Connie’s
family furious all over again, Taylor said.

“Chet and Connie’s family are all incensed,” she said.

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Taylor said she called the Vermont State Police Saturday morning to see if they
would re-open the investigation into the fatal crash.

“I want her charged with murder,” she said.

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Seward was cuffed by NYPD officers and hauled off the campus of Columbia
University on Thursday, April 18. Laura Dickerman/Facebook

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“She has no remorse, she received no punishment. She’s just prancing around
Columbia with her Ivy League privilege. After basically getting away with
murder, she’s now promoting murder, with no understanding of what she’s
promoting.”

Added Taylor: “It’s outrageous they haven’t thrown her off campus.”


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