We want our readers to get involved and post comments to our blog. It was our goal when we made it. If, however, you get so upset by someones post or comment, please do not run them down with your car like this woman did after a Yankees Red Sox argument in a bar in Rhode Island.
"She never braked, and she accelerated at a
high speed for about 200 feet. She went directly at this group of
people," prosecutor Susan Morrell said of Ivonne Hernandez, who is
charged with reckless second-degree murder in the death early Friday of
Matthew Beaudoin, 29.
Authorities won't describe the argument
beforehand in Slade's Food & Spirits, but witnesses said it heated
up when Hernandez identified herself as a New York Yankees fan. Like
the rest of New Hampshire, Nashua, 45 miles northwest of Boston, is Red
Sox country.
Bartender Tanya Moran said the argument spilled
outside, and at least one person in a group that included Beaudoin
began chanting ``Yankees suck!'' when they saw a Yankees sticker on
Hernandez's car.
Hernandez, 43, allegedly gunned her car and
struck Beaudoin and his friend Maria Hughes, 21. Hughes had only minor
injuries, which Beaudoin's sister Faith said was because her brother
shielded his friend.
Hernandez, of Nashua, was arrested at the
scene. She acknowledged she had been drinking and refused to take a
breath-alcohol test, said Morrell, a senior assistant attorney general.
Hernandez said she had been in an argument with the group.
"She
indicated to police that she wanted to scare this group of people. She
thought they would get out of the way," Morrell said.
Hernandez
was ordered held without bail after being arraigned Monday in Nashua
District Court. The charges, including aggravated drunken driving, are
felonies, so Hernandez could not enter a plea.
Her public defender, James Quay, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Beaudoin died of massive head trauma at a hospital, Morrell said.
Moran told The Telegraph of Nashua during the weekend that Beaudoin came to the bar regularly to socialize, sing karaoke and have fun.
"He came to hang out. He didn't really drink much," she said.
Chris Lovett, a disc jockey at Slade's, told the New Hampshire Union Leader that Beaudoin kept to himself and "wasn't an instigator."
Faith
Beaudoin said her brother, who lived in Nashua, was a 1997 graduate of
Nashua High School who worked dealing poker at Sharky's in Manchester
and Nashua. She said his organs, including his heart, live and kidneys,
were donated in hopes of saving other people's lives.
"He was always helping people when he was alive, and he's still saving lives," she said, choking back tears during the weekend.
The moral of the story, argue about sports on MyTeamRivals.com instead of a bar, it is much safer.
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