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http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/22/windshield.death.ap/
Woman stands trial for killing homeless man
Sunday, June 22, 2003 Posted: 4:48 PM EDT (2048 GMT)
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- It was hours before dawn on a highway southeast of downtown. A homeless man walked along a shoulder of the road as a former nurse's aide drove home after a night of drinking at a bar.
What happened next isn't clear. All Chante Jawan Mallard could remember, according to police reports, was that her Chevrolet Cavalier hit the man with such force that his head and shoulders jammed into the windshield, shattering it, and his legs bent over the roof, his pants tearing almost completely off his body.
Instead of stopping, police say, Mallard drove about a mile down the divided six-lane highway, the man still lodged and bleeding in the jagged windshield, then continued through town to her small yellow house in a working-class neighborhood.
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