Vermont

Man to be arraigned on murder charges in crash that killed 5

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Mourners hold candles Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, during a vigil attended by about 1,000 at Harwood Union High School in Duxbury, Vt., held for the teenaged victims killed in Saturday night's crash on Interstate 89 in Williston. Four of the five teens killed by the wrong-way driver were students at Harwood. The fifth student killed was from Fayston and attended a private school in New Hampshire. (Stefan Hard/Times Argus via AP) (The Associated Press)

Steven Bourgoin is brought in to be arraigned in a makeshift courtroom at the University of Vermont Medical Center on five counts of second-degree murder in Burlington, Vt. on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. Bourgoin is suspected of driving the wrong way on an interstate and causing a fiery crash that killed five teenagers and critically injured himself. He was arraigned at the hospital due to the injuries suffered in the crash. (Glenn Russell/The Burlington Free Press via AP, Pool) (The Associated Press)

Steven Bourgoin is arraigned in a makeshift courtroom at the University of Vermont Medical Center on five counts of second-degree murder in Burlington, Vt. on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. Bourgoin is suspected of driving the wrong way on an interstate and causing a fiery crash that killed five teenagers and critically injured himself. He was arraigned at the hospital due to the injuries suffered in the crash. (Glenn Russell/The Burlington Free Press via AP, Pool) (The Associated Press)

A man suspected of driving the wrong way on an interstate and causing a fiery crash that killed five teenagers and critically injured himself is expected to be arraigned on five counts of second-degree murder.

Police say 36-year-old Steven Bourgoin crashed into the teens' car in Williston and then stole a police cruiser before crashing it into at least seven other vehicles late Saturday night. Chittenden County state's attorney TJ Donovan has said he "would not classify what occurred on Interstate 89 as an accident."

Bourgoin is to be arraigned Friday in a conference room of the hospital, where his condition has been upgraded from critical to good.

Public defenders working on his case have not returned phone calls or emails seeking comment.