To make a short story even story, chick from Oxon Hill (like...10 minutes outside of DC) smokes some crack, straps her 7 y/o kid in the car, smokes some more crack and decides to mow right through a street festival in Southeast. No further commentary needed.
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Mayor: 'unbelievable heroism' when car plowed into crowd
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Neighbors and rescue personnel threw children out of the path of a speeding car that plowed through a crowded street festival, preventing more serious injuries than the 40 people struck, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said Sunday.A 4-year-old boy with a broken leg was the only person still hospitalized a day after a woman's car sent people and strollers flying, leaving debris and injured bodies strewn in her wake.
"I can't believe that we're actually saying that, right now, everyone is going to pull through," Fenty said. He credited "some unbelievable heroism" by citizens and rescuers.
Authorities believe the driver, Tonya Bell of Oxon Hill, Maryland, was going about 70 mph when she tore through Unifest, a church-sponsored street festival in southeast Washington.
Bell was treated for an ankle injury and was in police custody pending arraignment Monday, police said. She was preliminarily charged with aggravated assault while armed. The "armed" designation is because she used a vehicle.
Marcellus Jackson's father saved the boy's life by throwing him out of the way of the speeding car, Fenty said. The father, Vincent Hayes, was then hit by the speeding car head-on but was OK. (Watch victims carried away on stretchers )
"The car just passed so fast, and all of a sudden I just heard people screaming," said the boy's mother, Denise Jackson. "I turned around, and it was like bodies falling out of the sky." The boy was expected to be discharged Monday, said Emily Dammeyer, a spokeswoman at Children's National Medical Center.
Some questioned why Bell was not stopped after she was seen driving erratically and striking an unmarked police cruiser 20 minutes before the rampage.
Police Cmdr. Patrick Burke said officers had followed Bell's 1991 Volvo, but were told to stop because the traffic violation did not pose a threat to officers. They responded after people were struck.
Officials were still waiting for toxicology results, but Burke confirmed that some witnesses said Bell may have been smoking something and laughing as she drove through the crowd.
Bell had a 7-year-old girl in the car with her whose identity wasn't released. The child was not injured and was taken by Child Protective Services.
Burke said additional charges expected Monday would likely include assault on a police officer while armed. Two police officers working at the festival were thrown off their motor scooters when they drove in front of the car in an attempt to stop it. They suffered minor injuries.
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Source: CNN.com
2 comments:
laughing as she drove through the crowd?! evil knows no boundaries. and she has a child - of course they all do.
I saw this on the news this weekend as well... why is it that people seem to be more crazy now days and have less appreciation of another's life? Is it something in the kool-aid?
I never went to the Anacostia Festival when I lived there but I can only imagine the hysterics it could have caused.
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