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[Melania]

O.M.G. at both stories.

I hope they both are in jail.

[pinkskates4]

Yes - here it is:

A nurse's aide hit a man with her car, parked in her garage with him still stuck headfirst in her broken windshield and ignored his cries for help as he bled to death over the next two days, the police said.

The driver, Chante Mallard, said she periodically went into the garage and apologized to the victim, but did nothing to help him, investigators said.

Ms. Mallard, 25, of Fort Worth, was arrested on murder charges on Wednesday and was later released on bond. She faces from five years to life in prison and a fine up to $10,000.

''I'm going to have to come up with a new word,'' said the Tarrant County prosecutor, Richard Alpert. ''Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough. Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined inhumanity here.''

The police said the victim, Gregory Biggs, 37, probably would have lived had he received immediate help. When he died, Ms. Mallard and her friends put his body in the trunk of another car and dumped it in a park, where it was found on Oct. 27, the authorities said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/us/driver-hit-man-and-let-him-die-in-her-garage-police-say.html

[Topaz Gem]

She was a nurses' aide and didn't think to call 911? I guess she was worried about being held accountable. How horrible.

[SugarBabyJ]

On 1/21/2014 Dagna said:

Yes - here it is:

A nurse's aide hit a man with her car, parked in her garage with him still stuck headfirst in her broken windshield and ignored his cries for help as he bled to death over the next two days, the police said.

The driver, Chante Mallard, said she periodically went into the garage and apologized to the victim, but did nothing to help him, investigators said.

Ms. Mallard, 25, of Fort Worth, was arrested on murder charges on Wednesday and was later released on bond. She faces from five years to life in prison and a fine up to $10,000.

''I'm going to have to come up with a new word,'' said the Tarrant County prosecutor, Richard Alpert. ''Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough. Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined inhumanity here.''

The police said the victim, Gregory Biggs, 37, probably would have lived had he received immediate help. When he died, Ms. Mallard and her friends put his body in the trunk of another car and dumped it in a park, where it was found on Oct. 27, the authorities said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/us/driver-hit-man-and-let-him-die-in-her-garage-police-say.html

5 to life? Doesn't TX have the death penalty?

[Lipstickdiva]

I remember the story about the nurses aide. I should search and see if I can find out whatever happened to her.

ETA: She was sentenced to 50 years in prison plus. Here is what I found about her sentence:

Chante Jawan Mallard is a woman from Fort Worth, Texas, who was convicted and sentenced to 50 years' imprisonment for her role in the death of a 37-year-old homeless man, Gregory Glen Biggs.

The incident occurred on October 26, 2001 when Mallard's car struck him; at the time Mallard was believed to have been driving while intoxicated by drugs and alcohol. The force of the impact sent Biggs flying through the windshield, lodging him there.

Mallard then drove home, leaving the injured Biggs stuck in her windshield, and parked her car in her garage.

After the accident Mallard did not notify the police nor did she get Biggs any medical attention, even though she was a former nurse's aide. When Biggs died an unknown number of hours later, still in the windshield of her car in her garage, she called a male friend, Clete Jackson, for assistance. Mallard, Jackson, and Jackson's cousin Herbert Tyrone Cleveland, took the body to a park and left it there, even going so far as to set fire to part of the car in an attempt to disguise the evidence. The three were each convicted on charges of tampering with evidence for this action.

Mallard became a suspect after she was reported talking and laughing about the incident at a party some four months after the events. "I hit this white man," Mallard allegedly told acquaintance Maranda Daniel, laughing. During the trial, Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani testified that, had Mallard taken Biggs to a hospital, he would have recovered from his injuries. Other experts testified that they agreed that Biggs would have survived. "There's not a member of the Fort Worth Fire Department that could not have saved Mr. Biggs' life," testified Capt. Jim Sowder. Mallard was convicted of murder in June 2003, with the 50-year murder sentence and 10-year tampering sentence to run concurrently. She will be eligible for parole in 2027.

Mallard's case would later be adapted as an episode of the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ("Anatomy of a Lye", aired May 2, 2002) and also as an episode of Law & Order ("Darwinian", aired January 7, 2004 - though the driver is allowed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice after an autopsy reveals that the accident was not the cause of the fatal head injury). The case is referenced briefly in the Drawn Together episode "Captain Hero's Marriage Pact" and in a parody song on the Russ Martin Show. A sub-plot in "My Name is Earl" ('Gospel' episode) is also inspired by the case.

Films inspired by the events include Stuck (2007, with Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea), and Accident on Hill Road (2009, with Celina Jaitley and Farooque Shaikh."

[madcity411]

That poor guy is one lucky man. Only a couple of small cuts after going through a windshield! How in the heck could the driver not know you hit someone, until you see them sitting next to you in the front seat? Wow!

[betteb]

A couple of years ago, here in Oz land, a VA Doctor hit a road worker and drove the 3 miles home with the victim (dead) on his hood.

He pulled in the drive and went in the house. The neighbors called police

[NoelSeven]

[ivey]

In Texas, this past week, a man hit and killed a 9-year-old who was walking to school. Didn't stop. Then he tried to get his truck fixed by saying he hit a deer. They arrested him as he tried to cross the border.