Woman gets 3 years for grad student’s death
A 25-year-old Mitchellville woman was sentenced to more than three years in prison for a crash that killed one graduate student and seriously injured another in Adams Morgan.
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On Sept. 8, 2010, Chamica Adams had been drinking at a club in the 2400 block of 18th Street NW, shortly before she got behind the wheel of her 2007 Dodge Caliber, prosecutors said. Security video showed Adams having several alcoholic drinks and stumbling out of the bar, prosecutors said.
Adams drove up on a traffic island where four people were waiting for the light to change. The car struck Julia Bachleitner, 26, and another woman before driving into a restaurant.
Bachleitner, a student of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, died six days later.
Pit bulls kill 12 sheep
Two dogs killed 12 sheep and injured eight more on a farm near Funkstown, according to Maryland State Police.
Police said two large pit bulls attacked the animals, and chased the farmer into his barn Sunday morning. The farmer’s son shot and killed one of the dogs and the other one ran off. Investigators traced the dog to a home in Funkstown.
Washington County Humane Society has taken custody of the other dog and is investigating.
Human skull found behind Kmart store
Prince William County police said a man found human remains behind a Kmart in Woodbridge.
Around 2:30 p.m. Saturday, police received a call from a man who said he found a human skull in the woods behind the store in the 2800 block of Dale Boulevard. Cadaver dogs were used to search the wooded area but no other remains were found, said police spokesman Officer Jonathan L. Perok. The skull was sent to the Medical Examiner’s Office for forensic identification. There were no obvious signs of trauma.
– Scott McCabe
