Family: Man left woman to die on freeway during first date
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - It started out as a mystery - how did a Fort Lauderdale waitress 勝利,勝つd up lying on a 郊外の freeway before 夜明け last 週末, getting fatally struck by 非常に/多数の passing cars?
The family of 33-year-old Jennifer St. Clair now thinks they know. In a 訴訟 とじ込み/提出するd Friday, they say St. Clair was on a first date with Miles McChesney of New York when she fell off his borrowed Harley-Davidson motorcycle and he fled. The Florida 主要道路 Patrol has 拒絶する/低下するd comment, 説 St. Clair's death is under 調査. McChesney's 弁護士/代理人/検事, Russell Cormican, also 拒絶する/低下するd comment.
によれば the 訴訟, St. Clair and McChesney, 34, met on the online dating 場所/位置 Tinder and went out Dec. 6 with two other couples for a group motorcycle ride, stopping at three 妨げる/法廷,弁護士業s.
At about 2 a.m. on Dec. 7, the 訴訟 says, the motorcycles were on Interstate 95 when St. Clair "was somehow expelled from the motorcycle" and was struck 非常に/多数の times by passing cars. 証言,証人/目撃するs say a motorcyclist stood 近づく St. Clair's 団体/死体 and then took off. The 訴訟 says a phone belonging to McChesney's cousin, who was one of the other motorcyclists, called 911 but hung up.
"The cousin and the other motorcycle driver had gone ahead. When they noticed that Jennifer was not on the bike, the cousin pulled over and called 911," the family's 弁護士/代理人/検事, Todd Falzone, told a 圧力(をかける) 会議/協議会 Friday. He said McChesney then approached his cousin, who told the dispatcher, "Here he is, forget it" and hung up.
Falzone said Cormican called the 主要道路 patrol later that morning and told 捜査官/調査官s McChesney would only talk if given 十分な 免疫. They 辞退するd.
"McChesney drank alcohol to the point where he became impaired," Falzone said. "McChesney carelessly and negligently operated that motorcycle. He then failed to (判決などを)下す 援助(する) to Jennifer, and then left her on the 主要道路."
によれば 法廷,裁判所 文書s, McChesney was 解放(する)d from feder al 刑務所,拘置所 in November after serving time for 逃げるing a halfway house. He was there while 完全にするing a 宣告,判決 on a 小火器 有罪の判決. His 明確な/細部 hometown in New York could not すぐに be 決定するd.