One year ago, 21 year old Tressa Russell ran over 66 year old Stanly Brown (February 11, 2009) when she drove away from a pizzeria. Last week she was sentenced to 3 years of probation, 240 hours of community service and a fine of $5,400.00. What bothers me is not the lack of incarceration but her utter deficient humanity, oh yeah I didn’t mention, she thought she hit a pothole so she kept on driving. She only returned to the scene after she called a friend who told her there were police and ambulances where she said she hit that pothole.
Link to the story from the Albany Times Union : https://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=896427
In an exact quote from her statement printed by the Albany Times Union, she plead guilty primarily, “so I could get my car back and to make the victim’s sisters happy for the loss of their brother.”
The article continued, “The defendant (Tressa Russell) appears to be more upset about the loss of her car and license than the loss of the life of the victim, Stanley Brown.”
In court, Russell’s attorney, Joseph McCoy, said his client was remorseful. He said his client’s decision to leave the scene in no way contributed to the victim’s death.
Just hitting Stanley with her car contributed to him dying.
I hope that our cultural apathy takes a break when hearing story’s like this, until that happens I’m going to continue talking about it.
https://blog.longbikeback.com/?p=310oldId.20100213105231998
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