Update: According to court records, in two different police-administered tests Adams had a blood-alcohol level of .17 and .18, more than twice the legal level in D.C.

Julia Bachleitner. (Image: Facebook via ABC 7 News)

One of the victims in last night's crash in Adams Morgan has been identified as Julia Bachleitner, a second-year student in the masters program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington. According to a SAIS spokesperson, Bachleitner remains in critical condition.

Adams being taken into custody. (Image: ABC 7 News)

Chamica Adams, of Mitchellville, Md., was arrested after she apparently hit Bachleitner and another young woman with her Dodge Caliber and crashed the car into Keren Restaurant near Florida Avenue and 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan.

Today the U.S. Attorney's Office charged Adams with criminal aggravated assault (charging papers below). The attorney general's office may also charge her with driving while intoxicated, a traffic violation that she was arrested for.

Aggravated assault is a felony charge not always attached to DWI crashes that involve pedestrians. Police say Adams was belligerent after the crash. According to ABC7's Julie Parker, who was at Adams' hearing today, the 23-year-old lives with her parents in Maryland. She has a GED and no adult criminal record, and she lost her job last year. She's been released on supervision and can't drink or drive by court order.

At the hearing today, Magistrate Judge Diana Harris Epps said, "I'm so glad I wasn't standing on the street."

The charging papers allege that Adams did "knowingly and purposely cause serious bodily harm" to Bachleitner. That's some strong language there, insinuating that the defendant crashed the car on purpose. But in D.C. the charge for aggravated assault also leaves room for "extreme indifference to human life," which, in theory, could be constituted by the mere decision to get behind the wheel after drinking.

Even so, the charge is an aggressive one. "In my experience, there's very rarely an assault charge" attached to a DWI crash involving pedestrians, says D.C. police spokesman Nicholas Breul.

Right now one of the young crash victims is fighting for her life, according to Breul. If, God forbid, she doesn't make it, there could be much stiffer charges to come for Adams.

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The charging papers for Chamica Adams

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