faces life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder in Fort Worth, Texas. Posted on 06/24/2003 4:12:37 PM PDT by yankeedame
'Hit and carry' driver denies she is a murderer
A nurse's aide has gone on trial for murder, accused of hitting a man with her car and leaving him stuck in the windscreen and dying as she drove home.
Chante Jawan Mallard, 27, faces life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder in Fort Worth, Texas.
She told police her car hit Gregory Biggs, 37, with such force his head and shoulders jammed into the windscreen and his legs were bent over the roof, his trousers tearing almost completely off his body.
Instead of stopping, police say, she drove about a mile down a six-lane motorway, the man still lodged and bleeding in the jagged windscreen, then continued through town to her home.
She pulled into her garage, closed the door, then sat in the car and cried, repeatedly apologising to the man as he moaned, she later told detectives.
"Chante kept going in and out of the garage telling the man she was sorry," the police report said. "She does not know how long it took the man to die she quit going out into the garage."
Biggs, a former bricklayer who had been living in a homeless shelter, was found dead the next day, his body dumped in a park.
Mike Heiskell, Mallard's lawyer, said before the trial that she "was simply a frightened, emotionally distraught young woman who had an accident, panicked and made a wrong choice."
Police initially said Biggs lived for several days in Mallard's garage, slowly bleeding to death from his multiple fractures and cuts. But County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani later said Biggs, whose left leg was nearly severed, probably lived only a few hours after he was hit. He could have survived if he had received medical attention, Peerwani has said.
When Biggs' body was found, authorities had no leads until four months later, when a tipster said Mallard talked about the incident at a party.
© Associated Press
Right. It upset HER too much.
LETS STOP WITH THIS WRONG CHOICE CRAP RIGHT NOW!
A wrong choice is when you order ranch instead of french, go to the beach instead of studying, not killing someone! That's murder!
French is always wrong...
She was too scared to call for the police or an ambulance, but not too scared to check up on the guy and make sure he was bleeding to death just fine?
What a sick, selfish individual.
Here is today's testimony, fyi :Forensic scientist takes stand in windshield death
case - victim 'spit blood...gripped map holder'
Here is the thread history so far:
06-23-2003
Trial begins in death-by-windshield casePre-Trial Articles:
06-22-2003
Windshield case: Was it murder?
(Chante Mallard Murder Trial)06-18-2003
Windshield case attracts spotlight -
Mallard trial focuses natl media, legal eye on FW courts again
03-07-2002:
Man Lives 2 Days Stuck In Broken Windshield
(THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE - The woman should be SHOT!)
03-07-2002:
Police: Hit-Run Victim Lived Two Days Trapped in Windshield of Woman's Car
03-07-2002:
Texas Woman Charged With Allowing Hit-and-Run Victim to Die in Broken Windshield
03-07-2002:
Hit-and-run victim lodged in windshield for days
03-08-2002:
Woman accused of hitting man, leaving him to die on windshield
[Lawyer says case "overblown"]
03-08-2002:
Update on Man in Windshield story-
Woman had sex while man was dying in garage, "A mistake" she says
03-08-2002:
Police: Hit-run victim left to die in car windshield
03-09-2002:
Windshield death suspect back in jail - Bail raised to $250,000 -
Informant Receives Death Threats
03-13-2002:
Man died in hours, doctor says -
Windshield Hit & Run Murder Charge Stands - Suspect Still in Jail
03-15-2002:
Son sues suspect in windshield fatality -
Murder Suspect Still in Jail
Gregory Biggs
Chante Mallard
Chante Mallard (left) is accused of striking
Gregory Biggs with her car and leaving him
to die in the windshield.
aaaaaarrrrrgggggggggghhhhhh
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Oops! Should have said french instead of ranch!
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