Man Lives 2 Days Stuck In Windshield

[Diva]

FORT WORTH, Texas (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-129101620020307-070307.html) -- 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.

Just when you think you've heard the worst. The most cruel. The most horrible display of [in]humanity.... Someone comes along to prove you wrong. :(

Do you think they're 'overcharging' her with murder? What do you thnk her sentence should be?

[Jake]

The fact that she basically waiting for him to die ups the charges in my eyes. The man was alive and begging for help. She heard him and did nothing. Just waited.... and then dumped his body.

I agree with the Prosecuter. This isn't manslaughter, it's murder. What shocked me is that she was a nurses aid. They take an oath to help people. She broke that oath. She's in Texas, so you know they'll throw the book at her.

[ozblonde]

That is so bad To leave that poor man there for two days. I do feel as aussie does that she probably did panic but still panic or not to just leave the poor guy stuck there for two days while she waited for him to die that is just so darn sad. I hope she does get a heavy sentence she more than deserves it

[NewEnglChick]

she did apologize many times

that makes it all ok



**heavy sarcasm in case you have doubts**

[Diva]

Man, NewEnglChick... I was about to open a can on whoop ass on ya until I saw the sarcasm comment.

She needs the book and the bookmaker thrown at her in my opinion. Seeing as that she does live in Texas, who's unificial state emblem is the electric chair, that bird is gonna fry.

[aussie]

Due the american love of killing people I guess the chick is doomed. The fact that she is in a place a backward as Texas only seals her fate. I guess the saddest thing is that now a court will likely murder the woman so two lives are lost. One of those lives is a usefull member of society who`s only crime at the moment is that she paniced and got her self in deeper.

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[Sterling]

One of those lives is a usefull member of society who`s only crime at the moment is that she paniced and got her self in deeper.

Only crime? You mean apart from inflicting fatal injury due to drink/drug influenced driving, and then compounding it by watching the victim die painfully over the course of two days without doing anything to help? Why yes, when you put it like that, it's easy to see why she's a useful member of society.:rolleyes:

While I agree with your comments with respect to captial punishment, I think that's a separate issue to whether the prosecution are overreaching. In this case, I think the woman is probably guilty as hell, and should be punished to the limit of the law. Arguing about where that limit should be is a separate matter.

[aussie]

Yes ONLY crime. Unless you know of a few others sterling that your not sharing? Can you point to anything in particular in her past that shows her as being a worthless person? Someone unfit to live? :finger:
Lets get a grip here people you are all acting as if she treated this as a sideshow of some kind. Do you all think she took pleasure in what happened? :finger:Do you think she got her self a chair and a beer and invited the neighbours around for a barbeque to watch the guy in the wind shield die?:finger: Are you all out of your minds?:finger:
The woman had an accident plain and simple unfortunatly she became afraid and paniced. She was scared for christ sake are you all such liars that you can get on this board and claim to have never been afraid? Do you really think someone should be murdered for being afraid? :finger:
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[Sterling]

You are conflating the issue of death penalty with the issue of whether she is guilty of murder.

I don't agree with the death penalty either, and I don't think this woman (or any other murderer, for that matter) should be executed. However, that has no bearing whatsoever on her guilt or innocence: she's pretty clearly guilty.

Have I ever driven drunk or on drugs? No, I haven't. Why? Because I don't like the idea that I might injure or kill someone. This woman clearly didn't give a shit about that.

If I did have an accident, and impaled someone through my windshield, would I leave them to bleed to death in my garage for two days? No, I honestly think I wouldn't, and I resent your implication to the contrary.

Sure, she panicked initially. But you'd think that after two days of the guy pleading for help, any decent individual might get him to medical attention rather than waiting for him to die so the body can be dumped.

[aussie]

Ok then try this one on. Do you think she got in her car to murder some one that day? was it her intention when she saw that guy to kill him? In fact she had an accident let me say that a little more plainly SHE HAD AN ACCIDENT. An accidental homicide with a degree of culpability is manslaughter. Im not so well up on redneck law as applied in the state of Texas but in most civilised countries manslaughter is what it is in the rest of the civilised world.


Have I ever driven drunk or on drugs? No, I haven't. Why? Because I don't like the idea that I might injure or kill someone. This woman clearly didn't give a shit about that.


How do you surmise she didnt give a shit. What leads you to this conclusion. You seem to be of the idea that panic has a time limit after how long do you think this woman became settled enough to totally aware of and responsible for her actions?
I still remain unconvinced that there was at any time murder in her heart.
Its also great to see that you are civilised enough to see the death penalty as something abhorent :). Particulary when you live in a country that has more ways to legally murder its citizens than any other on the face of the planet

It seems I stand accused of ARGUEING LIKE A GIRL
And of calling someone a liar



She was scared for christ sake are you all such liars that you can get on this board and claim to have never been afraid? Do you really think someone should be murdered for being afraid?

If that can be seen as calling someone a fucking liar then so be it.

This girl is out of this debate its all yours

[Diva]

She had an 'accident', and then left the scene of the 'accident'. That makes it a crime. The fact that she drove her car with the man attached is considered kidnapping. She held the man against his will which is false imprisonment. She refused to help him get medical aid, which is torchure. Then she waited, yes waited until he died and then dumped the body.

I don't care how scared I was. I would never do the things that she has done. If I was on drugs and drunk, it is my fault. She waited until he died. She's a nuses' aid. she knew damn well what was going to happen to him if he did not get medical attention.

Whether or not you believe in the death penalty is not an issue. The issue is manslaughter vs murder. You do not automatically get the death penalty for murder. The question is:


Do you think they're 'overcharging' her with murder? What do you thnk her sentence should be?

First-degree murder A killing that is “premeditated and deliberate.” Only short time required for premeditation.
Second-degree murder:Cases in which there is no premeditation. Killings committed during the course of felonies.
voluntary manslaughter: There is generally an intent to kill while in a 'heat of passion'.
involuntary manslaughter: The death is accidental due to gross negligence. Most states require “gross negligence”. Usually, D must be shown to have disregarded a very substantial danger not just of bodily harm, but of serious bodily harm or death.

[ozblonde]

Originally posted by aussie
It seems I stand accused of ARGUEING LIKE A GIRL
And of calling someone a liar




If that can be seen as calling someone a fucking liar then so be it.

This girl is out of this debate its all yours

I dont need a crystal ball to see pain at the end of this one? Who called you a girl aussie?:(

[Bane]

Aussie, I don't know who you are talking about, or why you decided what you did, but personally I rather resent the comment you just made.

"american love of killing people"

Playing at walking fine moral lines while making comments like that are foolish at best. Generalizations and stereotypes are a large part of the discourse in this world, to which you are contributing. I'm an American aussie. You presume too much.

As a side note:
The prosecution will likely ask for and get charges of second degree murder in this case. And according to the law that is as it should be. The woman detained and withheld medical attention directly causing this mans death. Since kidnapping is a crime, as well as leaving the scene of the accident and not filing a report this is the very definition of second degree murder. You don't have to dance over the body for it to be murder, that only a stereotypical media murder episode.

Secret Message: $&#*^(&!&@@*#&($(^ :)

[Sterling]

Also, she let the man die buried in her windshield and then disposed of the body. Why did she do that? It seems pretty clear to me that at that point her intent was to let the guy die and then get rid of the body. Let's just say that again: her intent was for the guy to die. She may not of planned to hit him with her car, that was just an accident (albeit a possibly criminal one if she'd been drinking or driving recklessly). However, when she let the guy die in her garage, for two days, she had plenty of time to realise that was she was doing was going to result in him dying. One can only conclude that eventually she intended the end result - his death. Seems like murder to me.

[Diva]

Here is more information on what is happening:



(CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/03/08/texas.hitandrun/index.html)) -- Mallard was arrested Wednesday night and was released after posting bail. She faces five years to life in prison if convicted.

Mallard, a nursing assistant, told police she was afraid to call for help because she had been drinking and using the drug ecstasy before the crash. Police said Biggs pleaded for help before he died.

"She basically drove to her house, parked the car with him still inside of it, still alive, asking for help in the garage, shut the garage door and she basically goes and checks on him for the next two or three days," said Fort Worth police Lt. David Burgess.

"We have information that shows that the person was on there long enough that they lived, suffered and they were not given medical attention and that it would have made a difference if they were," said Tarrant County prosecutor Richard Alpert.

Authorities said that after Biggs died, Mallard and some friends dumped his body in a park, where it was found October 27.

The crime went unsolved until police received a tip last month that led them to Mallard. The car was still in her garage and police found Biggs' blood and hair in the smashed windshield, police said. The car's seats had been burned in the back yard, police said.

If convicted of the murder charges, Mallard could be sentenced to life in prison. Police said they are looking for the people who helped dump the body, and plan to file charges against them as well.

According to The Associated Press, Biggs, 37, had struggled with mental illness and had been staying at a homeless shelter, where workers said he often brought them flowers. He was estranged from his mother and sister. He also had a 19-year-old son who only recently found out about the tragic death, relatives said.

Mallard:

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