Florida Parking Lot Rampage

IowaStatePhiPsi · #1 12-07-2004, 03:42 PM

So.. when will the media blame this on Grand Theft Auto?
Will we attempt to ban SUVs and parking lots?
Does Florida have the death penalty? She should get it for this.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in659379.shtml

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Parking Lot Rampage In Florida
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Dec. 7, 2004

Authorities say a Florida woman ran over two teenage brothers after they accidentally hit her sport utility vehicle with a golf ball they were bouncing in a parking lot, critically injuring one of the boys.

According to St. John's County sheriff's Deputy Greg Suchy, Isiah Grayer, 14, and his 16-year-old twin stepbrothers, Justin and Jamel Marshman, were bouncing the golf ball in a shopping center parking lot Sunday afternoon when it went astray and struck a sport utility vehicle driven by Kathy Feaganes Allen, 47.

Suchy said no damage was done, and the boys apologized and began to walk away. He says Allen started to drive away, but suddenly made a U-turn, ran over a median and hit Grayer, causing severe injuries, and then hit Justin Marshman.

"I tried to run. I blacked out. I woke up bleeding," Justin Marshman told The Florida Times-Union.

Police say she then went after Jamel - who broke into a run and managed to avoid being hit as the SUV crossed two medians, struck a utility pole and stalled out in a ditch.

Witness Russell McPhee said Allen accelerated to hit the boys.

"She charged them," he said. "This was the most deliberate act."

"Thank God for the light post," McPhee told CBS News Affiliate WTEV-TV, "because that saved the third boy."

McPhee said he yelled at Allen to stay where she was when she got out of her car.

"After she ran them down, she got out of the car and lit a cigarette like a movie star," he said. "She watched all three of (the boys) just lying there."

Allen then borrowed a cell phone from a bystander - Terry Gerspch - to call her husband. Gerspch says Allen seemed unfazed.

"She was as calm as anything," she said. "She said the boys were throwing rocks at her car."

McPhee said Jamel, the uninjured brother, ran over to Allen's car and confronted her: "He just kept asking 'Why? Why did you do this?'"

Grayer is in critical condition at Shands Hospital in Jacksonville. Justin Marshman was treated for non-life threatening injuries at Flagler Hospital.

Brent Woolbright of the St. Johns County Public Defender's Office said he has been assigned to Allen's case Monday and is trying to get all the facts.

"I talked to her, and her story is a little different that what was reported," said Woolbright.

Allen told the court she has mental problems. A judge Monday ordered her held without bail on three counts of attempted murder.

ZTAngel · #2 12-07-2004, 03:58 PM

I heard about this on the news last night. Saying this woman has mental problems is an understatement.

DeltAlum · #3 12-07-2004, 06:21 PM

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Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
So.. when will the media blame this on Grand Theft Auto?

What does that have to do with anything?

texas*princess · #4 12-07-2004, 06:47 PM

that's disgusting.

Peaches-n-Cream · #5 12-07-2004, 06:49 PM

What a psycho!

cashmoney · #6 12-07-2004, 10:16 PM

Only in Jacksonville/ponte vedra/St auggie does stuff like this happen.

It kinda makes you wonder if she was that nice housewife that just went over the edge over something little.

moe.ron · #7 12-08-2004, 08:15 AM

Wow, she is definately out there. She need to eat moe.ron's special brownie.

AnchorAlum · #8 12-09-2004, 10:10 PM

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Originally posted by cashmoney
Only in Jacksonville/ponte vedra/St auggie does stuff like this happen.

It kinda makes you wonder if she was that nice housewife that just went over the edge over something little.

I see you live in PV yourself. Well, I live in the area too. I'm from this area, and have lived all over the US. You think this does NOT happen in other parts of the country? Maybe you should get out more.

Actually, I was at my parent's home in St. Aug on Sunday, and they live in a newer golf course community right next to this shopping center. We saw the crime scene tapes and all of the police and we at first thought someone had shot a clerk in one of the stores, maybe that video store.
Those kids actually apologized and thought the incident was over. This is cold blooded attempted murder. This woman needs to get put away FOREVER.

cashmoney · #9 12-10-2004, 10:04 AM

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Originally posted by AnchorAlum
I see you live in PV yourself. Well, I live in the area too. I'm from this area, and have lived all over the US. You think this does NOT happen in other parts of the country? Maybe you should get out more.

Actually, I was at my parent's home in St. Aug on Sunday, and they live in a newer golf course community right next to this shopping center. We saw the crime scene tapes and all of the police and we at first thought someone had shot a clerk in one of the stores, maybe that video store.
Those kids actually apologized and thought the incident was over. This is cold blooded attempted murder. This woman needs to get put away FOREVER.

I thought my post was sarcastic...

Of course I know this happens all over, but rarely do you hear of a woman running teenage boys down with her car because of a golfball. So, no, on the other hand it doesnt happen all over the place. Don't get all worked up over someone's thoughts about a city in North Florida.

As for the woman, she doesnt need to be put away. She needs help, rehabilitation. Obviously she's mental. Putting someone away like a caged animal doesnt solve anything. I would understand if it was premeditated, but it wasnt. She just snapped.