Posted on 07/31/2014 7:55:30 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
LONGMONT, Colo. — A concerned couple calls police about a young boy left in a hot car.
But when the cops arrived, it’s the good Samaritans who needed an ambulance.
The boy’s mother is charged with running over the couple who called 911 on her.
Now, Shannon Dominguez, 43, is confined to a wheelchair. Doctors say she may never walk the same again.
“Every day is a chore. Every day is stressful,” says Dominguez.
They never could have imagined calling police to help a child left alone in a hot car would end up like this.
“All four windows were rolled up. And it was in the direct sun. It scares the heck out of me. It’s some innocent child might die,” says Dominguez.
Now, she’s dealing with a crushed left leg.
“My tibia has a spiral break. My fibula has three breaks in it. They put a rod in there,” she says.
Dominguez and her boyfriend Alan Mason say Kristina Riddell, 27, ran over them with her white Honda on June 7 just after 1: 30 p.m.
“She heard me on the phone with police,” says Dominguez, who called for help when she saw the boy alone in the car.
The drama unfolded in front of a Dollar Tree store at 2255 Main St. in Longmont.
Dominguez says Riddell got mad, threatened to beat her up and punched Mason in the face.
Dominguez says they were standing in an empty parking space when Riddell then got in her car, backed up and accelerated towards them, hitting Dominguez first, then Mason.
He went over the hood.
“She had her windows down, so I grabbed onto the door. She drug me about 20 feet. I realized she was not going to stop, so I let go. I tumbled in the parking lot,” says Mason. He suffered internal and external bruising.
Police soon arrested Riddle at her home at 1208 Meadow St. in Longmont.
She wasn’t there when FOX31 Denver stopped by Tuesday.
“She gets to work every day. She gets to cook for her family. She gets to go out on the weekends with her family. I can’t do any of that,” says Dominguez.
Doctors tell Dominguez she may never walk normal again.
For now, she’s bound to a wheelchair.
“It’s hard. We use to be so active and now I can’t do much of anything,” she says.
But the couple says if they could do it over again, they would.
“If it means helping a child, I’d do it in a heartbeat,” says Dominguez.
“We might do it a little different next time, says Mason. “Probably call 911, then leave.”
Riddell has an extensive criminal record, including arrests for assault, domestic violence and multiple driving violations.
Now, she’s facing charges of hit-and-run, assault and child abuse.
1. Lock Riddell in a hot car for 8 hours.
2. Take her out - run her over.
Reminds me of that joke: Who loves you more, your dog or your wife? To find out, lock them both in the trunk of your car for an hour, then open it up and see who’s glad to see you.
Hit and run?Sounds more like attempted murder.
Three words: Not my child.
A lot of female LIVs have figured out that having a few kids is essentially a “get out of jail free” card for pretty much anything, right up to attempted murder.
Judges will go easy on them “for the sake of the children.”
Sad to say but people are getting so crazy (and in Colo, with gov’t approval), it’s understandable why people choose to not get involved. “No good deed goes unpunished”.
Drugs? Outstanding warrants? Plot to kill the child that was foiled by the couple who called 911? She deserves a long prison sentence, regardless.
Absolutely.
I ask because back East, we have busybodies who seem to lurk, waiting to call the cops on some mom who leaves, say, an able-bodied 12-year-old boy in the car while she pops into the fabric store. (A friend of ours was hassled over this very situation.)
If the kid was an infant strapped into a car seat, that's one thing. But the "I'm snitching on you for your own good" thing is being abused all over the place, over a lot of different issues, and very often by people with no kids, who don't know what they're talking about. Whose kid is it? I say it doesn't take a village. It's more important to make people take responsibility for their own families, fire all the state-owned social workers, and let passers-by with live-in boyfriends become experts in their own moral lives first.
Yes, the mom sounded as if she was on drugs. Welcome to Colorado.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
“Now, she’s facing charges of hit-and-run, assault and child abuse.”
How about attempted murder. 2 counts.
Throw the book at this lunatic bitch.
We don’t have all the details, obviously.
But seems to me a first step should have been to go into the Dollar Store and ask them to alert customers to a child in a car.
Would presumably get the child relief, if that was indeed needed, faster than calling 9/11. If that gets no response in a minute or two, then call 9/11.
Unless the objective was more to get somebody in trouble than to protect a child.
Well... if it took 2 hours to get a cheeseburger, I’d say she needs to find a new place to eat. Dollar Tree stores don’t really have cheeseburgers. AND it was in Colorado, not California.
Looking at her ARREST RECORD, she seems more of the ‘meth’ type than the ‘pot’ type.
Or, possibly, they jumped in front of the car to keep her from leaving before the cops got there. Doesn’t justify what the driver did, of course, even if that’s the case.
According to this web page, the woman has an extensive arrest record.
http://saboteur365.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/hispanic-good-samaritan-run-over-by-white-mom-after-she-reported-moms-son-locked-in-hot-car/comment-page-1/
Photo: Druggie wearing makeup.
So, Riddel doesn’t sound like an especially nice lady but...
1. She HEARD them talking to the 911 operator. So she was right there. They called 911 instead of saying “hey lady is this your car”? WTF?
2. “They were standing in an empty parking space and she ran them down”. So her escape route led through an empty parking spot they just happened to be standing in. No, they were trying to block her from leaving and she called their bluff.
“I ask because back East, we have busybodies who seem to lurk, waiting to call the cops on some mom who leaves, say, an able-bodied 12-year-old boy in the car while she pops into the fabric store. (A friend of ours was hassled over this very situation.)”
We have the same problem here in CA, only the crazies extend their lunacy to people’s dogs. We and a couple call the cops on us while we stopped at a local barbeque store for a spare part. Our truck was in front of the store, in the shade with the windows down. When we came out they were screaming at us that we couldn’t leave because the cops had been called. Now we just take our dog with us into the store when we shop. With our laws here merchants understand that if they don’t let people bring their dogs in with them, that they loose business. The local Home Depot even has out water bowls. We love our dog and wouldn’t do anything to put her in harms way. These people are just another segment of the Looney Left who think they are “on patrol” for perceived abuses.
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