Posted on 03/07/2002 6:05:12 AM PST by smokinleroy
ORT WORTH - A victim of a hit-and-run lived at least two days trapped in the windshield of the car that struck him, according to a published report.
Police told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Thursday's editions that the driver ignored Gregory Glenn Biggs' pleas for help and the victim later died.
"I'm going to have to come up with a new word. Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough to say," Richard Alpert, a Tarrant County assistant district attorney, told the newspaper. "Heartless? Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined inhumanity here."
Police on Wednesday arrested Chante Mallard, a 25-year-old nurse's aide, on a murder warrant in Biggs' October death.
When Biggs' body was found abandoned in Fort Worth's Cobb Park, evidence pointed to a hit-and-run. The newspaper said investigators based their case on her confession about four months later of the collision as she drove near the junction of East Loop 820 and U.S. 287.
"If he had gotten medical attention, he probably would have survived," said traffic investigation Sgt. John Fahrenthold.
Mallard's told police she had been drinking and using ecstasy that October night and was driving home when she struck a man. The impact hurled him headfirst through the windshield, his broken legs protruding onto the hood.
With the man still lodged in the windshield, the woman panicked and drove a few miles to her southeast Fort Worth home, parking her 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier in the garage and lowering the door as Biggs began to plead for help, according to a police statement.
But investigators told the newspaper that Biggs received no aid for the next two or three days as he remained lodged in the windshield, bleeding and slowly going into shock. Mallard told police she periodically went into the garage, apologizing to him but ignoring his cries for help.
After the 37-year-old Biggs died, police quoted the woman as saying, several of the woman's acquaintances helped remove his body, putting it into the trunk of another car and driving to Cobb Park, where it was dumped. The body was found on Oct. 27.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office told police that Biggs suffered no internal injuries and apparently died from loss of blood and shock. Medical examiner's records listed Biggs' address as a homeless shelter in Fort Worth. His mother, Meredith Biggs, said she and her daughter, Janeen, had recently begun looking for him.
Police last month were tipped that the suspect may have been in a hit-and-run collision, said Fahrenthold. Mallard had told a friend details when she was questioned why she was no longer driving her car.
A search warrant of Mallard's house produced the damaged car with blood, hair and other evidence. Her attorney, Mike Heiskell, said the accusation against her was unwarranted.
"I think this is overreaching on the part of the prosecution and the police and, in the end, I believe the law will shake out that this was simply a case of failure to stop and render aid," he said.
Unbelievable
I bet the lawyer could barely surpress a laugh telling that one.
"I think this is overreaching on the part of the prosecution and the police and, in the end, I believe the law will shake out that this was simply a case of failure to stop and render aid," he said.
? I guess.....she only walked out into her garage for two or three days and told the dying fellow she was sorry, but refused help him as he lay frozen in the glass of her windshield-legs sprawled out on the hood, head and torso rammed into the car.
This was an accident (drug-induced) that turned into a murder of unspeakable cruelty over a two to three day period. The death penalty is TOO GOOD for this sicko.
"I think this is overreaching on the part of the prosecution and the police and, in the end, I believe the law will shake out that this was simply a case of failure to stop and render aid," he said.
The scumbag lawyer deserves the same penalty she does, and lethal injection is far too easy for either one of them.
Biggs received no aid for the next two or three days as he remained lodged in the windshield, bleeding and slowly going into shock. Mallard periodically went into the garage, apologizing to him but ignoring his cries for help.More than one criminal here -- her and her friends, too.After the 37-year-old Biggs died several of the woman's acquaintances helped remove his body, putting it into the trunk of another car and driving to Cobb Park, where they dumped it.
Yet the story relates that she "periodically went into the garage, apologizing to him but ignoring his cries for help.' Failure to stop and render aid is when you happen upon a person who has fallen down and you walk on. This is a case wherein, the ecstacy and alcohol have worn off, she periodically checks her victim for 2-3 DAYS...yet does nothing. Her victim dies and she deliberately abuses the corpse, tampers with the scene of the crime and commits an obstruction of justice. Her accomplices should also be charged.
Give her the needle. We don't need her kind around here.
Lawyers are ABSOLUTE SCUM! And I say this as a person with family members who are lawyers.... well over 75% of lawyers I have met I would not let near my dog! If the facts of this case are true, this man should be disbarred, and left in a room alone with the victims family for 24 hours.
Unfortunately, if he's willing to spin for clients like this, he will get plenty.
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