He cut off her car with his own vehicle and approached her on foot, but then she allegedly stepped on the accelerator, according to WJLA. But she didn't make a clean getaway as off-duty Officer Chris Jordan jumped onto the hood of her car to avoid getting run over. Holding onto the car's windshield wipers he throttled down the highway, and after driving down for a mile on the interstate Holly hit the brakes and let Jordon to roll off the vehicle. He was uninjured in the accident.
Prosecutors say that Jordan stared at Holly when he was stuck on her windshield and she shrugged her shoulders, her body language insinuating 'sorry, but this is what's happening'. She also yelled at him to 'get off her car'. After she shook him off the car, she sped away and her car's description and license plate were broadcasted over the local police channels.
Her vehicle was eventually found at 8.35am in a Chick-fil-A parking lot. She was slouched in the driver's seat, as if trying to hide. Nonetheless, she was arrested and transported to Maryland State Police's Rockville Barrack office. She admitted to leaving the scene of the car crash but denied leaving with cop on the hood of her car.
She want bail, but I say bail be Denai.
MORE: Holly’s three sisters left court in hysterics after the judge denied bond. They tell me Holly works overnights at the U.S. Postal Service distribution center in Gaithersburg, and has three young kids. “She gets off every morning and goes straight home,” Holly’s BF said.
‘You don’t think she is a flight risk. I’m sure the officer is financially responsible for his family, and she tried to kill him,’ Montgomery County District Court Judge Rand Gelber said.
Prosecutors said: I think that he is extremely lucky that he was not severely injured. First, from being hit by a vehicle, but also from having to hold onto it while that vehicle was traveling at extremely high speeds down the highway.’
The public defender added that Holly recently started taking a medication for an undisclosed ‘psychiatric issie’ and it’s unclear if that issue led to the incident.
Holly was not granted bond and Judge Gelber called her a ‘danger to the community’. She faces 50 years in prison.
Her three sisters and the father of her children attended the bond hearing and left in tears.
And from WJLA, keeps getting better:
Holly was found slouched down in the driver’s seat, attempting to hide. She was wearing a shirt sporting images of Walt Disney movie characters, Lilo & Stitch.
Police transported Holly to MSP’s Rockville Barrack where she admitted to leaving the collision scene, but explained she had no clue who Jordan was or why the officer would make such wild claims.
Just saying...he was off-duty, so likely not in uniform. Some guy cuts you off and starts coming towards you...what do you do?
BT-1000 again
The after-incident report should be interesting reading. If there is a lesson to me learned here, it is likely that the officer should have started shooting the driver before allowing the car to get close enough for the officer to have to jump on the hood. This driver risked the lives of the officer she was trying to shake off of the car hood and everyone else on the road, most likely after she caused the original collision which precipitated all of this. My guess is that the officer was justified in using deadly force much earlier but hesitated and was almost killed because of it.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!