> after she was picked up, whipple detailed to police what had happened in the hours leading up to gangell's death, starting when he reportedly "ditched" her the night before his death because he wanted to go to a car show with his father and a family friend, per her arrest affidavit, which she said made her angry. > she said that by the next morning he'd blocked her phone number, at which point she began to bombard him with messages across various platforms. all told, court documents revealed she sent him approximately 1,600 messages in the hours preceding his death. > according to the arrest warrant seen by law & crime, the contents of those messages included her hoping he would die from a drug overdose or by some other means, as well as other threats and verbal assaults. > uncovered snapchat messages between whipple and diaz-lopardo during the ordeal saw whipple messaging diaz-lopardo, "can we beat his ass pleas [sic]" and "i want him hurt.," according to court documents. his alleged response was, "come to me i'll hold u down." > after being confronted with her message history, whipple admitted to police, according to their arrest affidavit, that she might have threatened gangell, "but i didn't mean nothin' i said. everything i say is out of 'impulsivity.'" > "she wanted to cause harm to kevin," davis told wvit. "these text messages said i want him hurt and that's definitely concerning and raised a lot of red flags in building this case to show that this was an intentional act." > per the affidavit, whipple's final message, which reportedly came within minutes of diaz-lopardo hitting gangell with his car, read, "i warned u." diaz-lopardo denied intentionally hitting gangell, per his arrest warrant. > diaz-lopardo is being held on $500,000 bond with whipple being held on a $250,000 bond.   ale-whipple-logan-diaz-lopardo-stru ck-kill-kevin-gangell/
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