A 15-year-old girl is charged with killing a jogger in a hit-and-run, but that’s not enough for the victim’s widow, who highlighted the prosecutor’s claim that the young woman LAUGHED about the fatal incident after the fact.
The teenage driver is being charged as a juvenile for allegedly murdering Greg Moore, 53, in Maple Valley, Washington. Michelle Moore demands that the girl be tried as an adult.
Taking her godmother’s car without permission, Kasama Smith went 50 mph, which is 5 mph over the speed limit supposed to be maintained. Charges against the suspect say that she hit Moore when he was jogging at about 6 am on July 18 on a street in Maple Valley. “I’m going to scare him, I’m going to bump him,” Smith reportedly told a passenger in the car.
When the killing took place, a friend of Smith was following the Camry in another car. She reportedly heard a loud sound and then saw “saw something fly into the air”, she told reporters. Hours later, Moore was found at the spot in a ditch in front of Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, lying dead and without shoes.
Smith has been slapped with second-degree murder and hit-and-run charges. Moore’s wife is enraged that Smith is being tried as a teen and not an adult. “A family member (of the suspect) heard the individual laugh about the way Greg’s body flew up in the air when she hit him,” Michelle Moore said.
She further said that since the car was doing 50 mph, calling the impact a “bump” is an understatement, and wrong. “It’s a ‘thrill kill’ is what it’s called,” Moore said. She had set up a website to find Smith and offered a reward of $35,000. A GoFundMe page was created after the incident, and $44,758 was raised of the $100,000 goal when this report was published.
Tragic. I wonder if the girl understands the gravity of her deed? Teenagers are idiots. Their developing brains and raging hormones make it difficult for them to make solid decisions.
That is not an excuse. I was a pretty crazy 15-year-old. But, I would have never thought hitting a jogger would be “funny.”
I wonder if she would be laughing if she’s tried as an adult and found guilty of 1st degree murder. She should be doing 25 years behind bars. To laugh as she hit this man doing 50 mph! To let this ignorant pampered dope go with a hand slap will be an injustice to this family.