Hit-And-Run Victim Eventually Dies In Driver's Garage
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A man who was the victim of a hit-and-run lived at least two days trapped in the driver's broken windshield before dying in the driver's garage in Fort Worth, Texas, police said.
"I'm going to have to come up with a new word. Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough to say. Heartless? Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined inhumanity here," a prosecutor in Fort Worth told Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the October 2001 incident.
Police arrested a 25-year-old woman Wednesday -- a nurse's aide -- on murder charges in the man's hit-and-run death, according to the Telegram.
Police told the Telegram that Gregory Biggs spent at least two days trapped in the broken windshield of the car that hit him. They said the woman who was driving the car, Chante Mallard, drove it home and kept it in the garage -- and heard Biggs begging for help before he finally died of blood loss and shock.
According to a police statement, Mallard panicked, and with the man still lodged in the windshield, she drove a few miles to her home, parked in her garage, and ignored his pleas for help until he died. His body was later dumped in a park.
The mother of the homeless man, Meredith Biggs, said she wonders how the woman could have let him die the way he did.
Police said Mallard told them she had been drinking and was on drugs at the time she struck the man, and that she panicked.
But Meredith Biggs told the newspaper that she wants to know why the woman didn't call for help after the drugs wore off.
Mallard told police she occasionally went into the garage, apologizing to the victim. The impact had hurled him headfirst through the windshield, his broken legs sticking out onto the hood.
Mallard's attorney said police are overreaching in charging her with murder.
Sorry about that - I changed the link above. Who knows how long they'll leave it up.... But I'd like for you to see her. I've known people who make up like that, and they're not always completely rational.
Actually I think this says more about who is taking care of our vulnerable elderly in nursing homes than it does anything else. I have worked with aides I don't believe would behave any better. And not like management didn't know it, they just didn't care as long as they had their warm body.
You hit the nail square on the head! I've worked with a few of those people also and it's a crime in itself to let them even near a nursing home much less let them work in one. Doesn't say much about the people who are doing the hiring. Also said some where that she had a problem with her work history. Hmmmmm...
probably had a few abuse charges.
Not to change the subject, but Dennie, that is the best avatar I've seen here yet...nose pickin good...royalty at its finest! She goes any deeper, she's going to poke her darn eye out!!! LOL
I beg to differ. I worked with a CRNA who almost passed out into the sterile field during surgery from a self administered fentanyl injection. I also worked with an anesthesiologist who died at home from an apparent drug overdose and it was not a perscribed med. It is the person and the addiction and there are those in all walks of life. It is a terrible tragedy what happened to this poor man and yet another life ruined by the effects of addiction. I don't mean to sound argumentative, I just wanted to remain on the root of the problem.
a defense lawyer walks up to a farmhouse to serve some papers.As he walks up to the porch he steps in a cowpie. He looks down at his foot and cries out ..."I"M MELTING!!!!!":devil:
HORRIBLE 
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Dennie, thanks for the link and your thoughts. Our computer system wasn't able to load the video. Sounds like a "colorful" assortment of characters.
By now those nursing home residents and staff have no doubt watched the news reports