On October 26, 2001, Chante Jawan Mallard, 25, hit Gregory Glenn Biggs, 37, a homeless man, in his car. The force of the collision made Biggs get into the windshield. Mallard then drove home and left the man lodged in his windshield, where he died after a few hours. Mallard was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in his death.
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Chante Jawan Mallard (born June 22, 1976) is a woman from Fort Worth, Texas. On October 26, 2001, Mallard's car crashed into the homeless pedestrian Gregory Glen Biggs; at the time Mallard is believed to be driving drunk by a combination of marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol. The power of the collision made Biggs fly through the windshield, put it there.
Mallard then drove home, leaving the wounded Biggs trapped in his windshield, and parked his car in the garage.
After the accident, Mallard did not inform the police nor get medical attention from Biggs, although he is a former nursing assistant. When Biggs died hours later, still in the windshield of his car in his garage, he called a male friend, Clete Jackson, for help. Mallard, Jackson, and Jackson's cousin, Herbert Tyrone Cleveland, took the corpse to a park and left it there, even going too far to set fire to part of the car in an attempt to disguise the evidence. Each of them was convicted of damaging evidence for this action.
Mallard became a suspect after he reportedly spoke and laughed about the incident at a party about four months after the incident. "I hit this white man," Mallard said to his acquaintance, Maranda Daniel, with a laugh. The court of Mallard began on June 23, 2003. During the trial, Tarrant County medical examiner Nizam Peerwani testified that, if Mallard took Biggs to the hospital, he would recover from his injuries. Other experts testified that they agreed that Biggs would be safe. "No member of the Fort Worth Fire Department can not save Mr. Biggs's life," said Captain Jim Sowder. Mallard was convicted of murder in June 2003, with a sentence of 50 years in prison and 10 years of damaging sentence to run simultaneously. He will be eligible for parole in 2027.
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The Mallard case was later adapted as an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ("Anatomy of a Lye", aired May 2, 2002) and also as an episode of Law & amp; The Order ("Darwinian", aired January 7, 2004 - although the driver was allowed to plead guilty to the contempt of justice after the autopsy revealed that the accident was not the cause of a fatal head injury). The story also inspired events in the second season of Fargo, where Peggy Blumquist (Kirsten Dunst) hit Rye Gerhardt (Kieran Culkin) and drove home with her through the windshield.
Events inspired by the show include Stuck (2007, with Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea), Hit and Run (2009, with Laura Breckenridge), and Crash on the Hill Road (2009, with Celina Jaitley and Farooque Shaikh.)
See also
- Unusual death list
References
External links
- Smoking Gun Arrest Warrant Affidavit of Detective D.E. Owings.
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