Wicked Doll
May 2nd, 2009, 04:03 PM
How sad, this guy made it to 82 and gets taken out by a drunk driver who has mental health issues. Damn.
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Linda Zorn
Hide-A-Way Lake residents testified Tuesday about a "gruesome" scene they discovered after J.B. "Buck" Nowell was hit by a speeding car while he was loading up his fishing gear.
Linda Zorn, 64, is on trial for manslaughter for causing the June 27 collision that killed 82-year-old Nowell, who was well known in the Hide-A-Way Lake community as an avid fisherman.
Defense attorney Tonda Curry said it was true Ms. Zorn was driving her vehicle while intoxicated, hit Nowell and caused his death. But, she said, the jury would have to decide if she was reckless or criminally negligent. She said Ms. Zorn has suffered severe mental problems for most of her adult life and they were exacerbated by something that happened in the military. Ms. Zorn had been sober but something triggered her drinking the day of the collision.
Tommy Goodman, Precinct 5 deputy constable, was off duty on June 27, but was called out to the 1200 block of Hilltop Run by Hide-A-Way Lake security officers at 8:20 p.m. because he lived nearby. He said Ms. Zorn's red car was in a ditch at the edge of a wooded area. The car had front-end damage and Goodman said he could tell where Nowell's head had hit the windshield.
About 50 to 75 yards up the road from the car, Goodman found Nowell dead with major head and body trauma. Nowell was a few feet from his vehicle and fishing equipment was scattered around his body, he said. Nowell's vehicle was parked off of the road, in a parking area by the fishing lake, he said.
Ms. Zorn was belligerent and repeatedly said she wanted to get in her car and go home, Goodman said. He said she became combative with him so he took her to the ground, handcuffed her and detained her until sheriff's deputies arrived. While she was in a patrol car, he said Ms. Zorn kicked the doors and broke a door handle. When she said she couldn't understand why she was being detained, Goodman said he told her she had killed a man. She replied that she didn't do that and she was going home. He said there was a very strong odor of alcohol coming from her.
Goodman said he saw no evidence Ms. Zorn had tried to slow down before she hit Nowell and the impact was "very forceful."
http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090422/NEWS08/904220354
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Linda Zorn
Hide-A-Way Lake residents testified Tuesday about a "gruesome" scene they discovered after J.B. "Buck" Nowell was hit by a speeding car while he was loading up his fishing gear.
Linda Zorn, 64, is on trial for manslaughter for causing the June 27 collision that killed 82-year-old Nowell, who was well known in the Hide-A-Way Lake community as an avid fisherman.
Defense attorney Tonda Curry said it was true Ms. Zorn was driving her vehicle while intoxicated, hit Nowell and caused his death. But, she said, the jury would have to decide if she was reckless or criminally negligent. She said Ms. Zorn has suffered severe mental problems for most of her adult life and they were exacerbated by something that happened in the military. Ms. Zorn had been sober but something triggered her drinking the day of the collision.
Tommy Goodman, Precinct 5 deputy constable, was off duty on June 27, but was called out to the 1200 block of Hilltop Run by Hide-A-Way Lake security officers at 8:20 p.m. because he lived nearby. He said Ms. Zorn's red car was in a ditch at the edge of a wooded area. The car had front-end damage and Goodman said he could tell where Nowell's head had hit the windshield.
About 50 to 75 yards up the road from the car, Goodman found Nowell dead with major head and body trauma. Nowell was a few feet from his vehicle and fishing equipment was scattered around his body, he said. Nowell's vehicle was parked off of the road, in a parking area by the fishing lake, he said.
Ms. Zorn was belligerent and repeatedly said she wanted to get in her car and go home, Goodman said. He said she became combative with him so he took her to the ground, handcuffed her and detained her until sheriff's deputies arrived. While she was in a patrol car, he said Ms. Zorn kicked the doors and broke a door handle. When she said she couldn't understand why she was being detained, Goodman said he told her she had killed a man. She replied that she didn't do that and she was going home. He said there was a very strong odor of alcohol coming from her.
Goodman said he saw no evidence Ms. Zorn had tried to slow down before she hit Nowell and the impact was "very forceful."
http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090422/NEWS08/904220354