LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (KCTV) - 21-year-old Gabriel Z. Russell of Greenwood, Missouri, is facing a felony charge of driving while intoxicated after a weekend crash that seriously injured one person.

The Lee’s Summit Police Department was dispatched to the single-car crash off SE Hamblen Road around 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 28.

The caller reported that there were multiple people inside a flipped 2011 BMW 328, and that one of them was unable to feel his legs.

Officers found the victim with no feeling in his legs lying on the ground near the back of the car. He was taken to an area hospital but would soon be transferred to a level-one trauma center after doctors determined he might have as many as six cervical spine fractures.

At the scene, officers spoke to the driver, Russell, who allegedly admitt

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