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Location: Oklahoma | http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/dollar1-million-bail-for-california-woman-charged-in-road-rage-death-of-navy-officer/ar-BBkCnXc?ocid=ASUDHP
Story copied from MSN:
A San Diego judge set bail at $1 million on Tuesday for a 25-year-old woman charged with murder in what police said was a road rage killing of a U.S. Navy special operations officer on a busy freeway.
Darla Renee Jackson is accused of ramming her car into the back of Zachary Buob's motorcycle on Thursday afternoon and then driving over the 39-year-old man as he lay on the ground on a freeway in Chula Vista, south of San Diego.
Jackson pleaded innocent to the charges in a courtroom packed with scores of bikers and uniformed sailors who turned out in support of the victim. She could face a sentence of 15 years to life in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors say Buob and Jackson were both driving on I-5 freeway when an altercation occurred. Buob took a transition ramp to an eastbound highway and Jackson followed in her car.
“The defendant pushed the motorcycle 300 feet until he fell to the ground and then she drove over him,” Deputy District Attorney Laura Evans said. “From the witness statements, it appears it was a deliberate and intentional act.”
Jackson’s lawyer, Stephen Cline, said Buob “sped by her on a motorcycle and got angry about something and kicked her car, which she had just bought. He kicked her car hard enough for her to swerve and she wanted to get his information to give it to the police.”
“She’s sorry, she’s upset, she’s scared, she’s very worried about her 3-year-old daughter and she’s facing a murder charge,” Cline said.
(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Mohammad Zargham)
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| Man, ALL she is facing is 15 years? She should be looking at a much stiffer sentence if found guilty, which it sounds like she is. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | I am having a hard time believing he kicked her car.... I'm not experienced in riding motorcyles (rode maybe 200 miles total with my husband), but I just can't imagine trying to kick a car while on one going down a freeway... and even if he did then she made the decision to take a life and get revenge over a car? |
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| One of my friends was good friends with Zach. He is really distraught over the whole thing, I had only met him once for a brief moment but he seemed like a decent guy. It's really sad...even some of the defendant's family and neighbors say she wasn't a good person and has a horrible temper. 15 years is too short. This is the type of person who will do this again. This is sad and road rage out here is really bad. |
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Location: Oregon | Wow, if she is willing to take someone’s life in public, over hurt pride that someone allegedly kicked her car. What is she capable of doing to her 3yr child when no one is around and the child has done something to anger her?
This is so very, very sad.
Edited by ~rodeojunkie~ 2015-06-03 5:39 PM
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | Longneck - 2015-06-03 12:35 PM
I am having a hard time believing he kicked her car.... I'm not experienced in riding motorcyles (rode maybe 200 miles total with my husband), but I just can't imagine trying to kick a car while on one going down a freeway... and even if he did then she made the decision to take a life and get revenge over a car?Â
And kicked it hard enough to make her serve??? |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | The problem is she is probably sorry she got caught and nothing more. Welcome to the New America. |
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