cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/12281799
A rising star boxer was killed after she was struck by an alleged road rage driver who deliberately reversed into her as she rode her bike along a Texas highway, police said.
Hannah Rapp, 26, who challenged for the WBC women’s featherweight championship last month, died Saturday morning after being struck by a car, according to a
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Rapp’s boyfriend said Medina accelerated backward before striking Rapp, causing her to hit her head on the rear window.
Medina, of Navasota, has a lengthy rap sheet and has been booked into the Brazos County Jail 13 times since 2012, according to online jail records obtained by KBTX.
Those include criminal mischief, theft, resisting arrest, assault, hit and run, escape from custody, deadly conduct, possession of a controlled substance, and multiple driving offenses.
It looks like this could go either way as a reasonable person would assume that intentionally hitting someone with your car poses a real possibility of killing them. Looks like the examples of negligent vehicular manslaughter are usually things like reckless driving or driving under the influence.
Personally (not a lawyer) I’d consider it murder if I was on a jury given the information I have. Hitting someone with a car on purpose is akin to hitting them with a club. Sure, you may not have thought it was likely to kill them, but you weren’t trying not to kill them.