The person they arrested for the 'murder' -- because I consider it homicide when someone hits another with a car and flees the scene of the crime, turned out to be the wife of a Mexican Air Force Officer.
That's not what's bugging me.
She was release on $3000 bond. Considerably less than anyone else would have been released on!
Wife Of Mexican Air Force Officer Arrested In Fatal Hit-And-Run
POSTED: 5:47 am MST December 5, 2007
UPDATED: 2:07 pm MST December 5, 2007
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Troopers have arrested the wife of a Mexican air force officer after a hit-and-run that killed a civilian Air Force Academy employee, the Colorado State Patrol said Tuesday.
Veronica Prieto-Gudino, 30, was arrested Monday on suspicion of careless driving causing death and failure to report an accident involving death, Sgt. Rick Hoffmann confirmed.
She was booked into the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center and freed on $3,000 bond, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said.
Officers called the U.S. Justice Department to confirm that Prieto-Gudino, a Mexican citizen, did not have diplomatic immunity, Hoffmann said. A phone number for her could not be found.
Donna Head, 65, of Monument, was struck around 9 a.m. Monday in a parking lot near the academy’s community center.
Officials closed both the north and the south entrance gates to the base while authorities searched for the driver and eventually found the vehicle suspected of hitting Head.
However, the driver was not inside.
Medical aid, including an air ambulance, was called to the scene, but the woman was already dead by the time paramedics arrived
Head was the flight chief for the academy’s family program, meaning she oversaw all child programs for the academy. Her husband, Air Force Brig. Gen. James Head, retired two years ago as a physics professor and vice dean of faculty at the academy, The Gazette reported.
She has worked at the academy since 1991.
Prieto-Gudino is married to a Mexican officer working at the academy as a language instructor through a military exchange program, an Air Force Academy source told the newspaper.
Hey I was over there mountain biking day before yesterday. They wouldn’t let anyone out for about 1/2 an hour at the North gate.
I don’t know if this is related or not to this Tuesday afternoon stop, but thanks for posting this.
I can’t seem to find anything about it in the Gazette yet.
Actually, it is a "homicide," but not necessarily a "murder." The two terms are not synonymous.
"Homicide" is the killing of one person by another. It would include accidental killings as well as justifiable and self-defense killings. "Murder" is the unlawful killing of one individual by another. In law, the term "murder" is usually even more restrictive.