The car thrust Baker 180
feet from the highway's intersection with Southwest Watson Avenue, where he was
hit as he attempted to cross the roadway last year. The driver, Samantha
Gormley, saw that the impact ripped clothing off his body and tried to warm him,
her defense attorney, Sara Snyder, told the court during a hearing Tuesday
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When Beaverton police officers arrived at the crash, Gormley told them she had a green light and wasn't speeding, Washington County Deputy District Attorney Jason Weiner said. Investigators conducting a reconstruction of the crash later determined Gormley, 24, was traveling between 64 and 70 miles per hour – in a 35-mile-per-hour zone – during the Nov. 30, 2011 incident.
In a lengthy and emotional hearing Tuesday morning before Washington County Circuit Judge Janelle Wipper, Gormley, of Aloha, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and was sentenced to two years in prison. A grand jury in March indicted Gormley, who has no criminal history, on one count each of second-degree manslaughter and reckless driving.
Baker, who lived in Beaverton, was on his way to catch a Tri-Met MAX train for work at a downtown Portland Subway when he started to cross Canyon Road as the signal for traffic heading west on the highway turned yellow. Weiner said Gormley, who was traveling west, was about 400 feet from the Watson Avenue intersection and accelerated as the light turned yellow. As she entered the intersection, the light turned red, and she struck Baker.
Gormley told authorities she couldn't see him until it was too late.
Baker and Gormley both contributed to his death, Weiner said. But if Gormley was going the speed limit,cheap suprashoesforsale for women online, Weiner said, Baker would have been reasonable to think her light would turn red before she reached the intersection.
"If he waited for the walk sign, he wouldn't have been hit," Weiner said. "But he already paid for that. He's dead."
Weiner, who argued Gormley should receive three years in prison, told the court Gormley's reckless behavior and aggressive driving started before the crash. As she was driving on Southwest Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, she veered across the roadway to take a right at Lombard Avenue, nearly striking a car, Weiner said. She then passed the driver in an oncoming traffic lane, Weiner described, and flipped the driver off.
Gormley's attorney later disputed the gesture, and added that Weiner used "hyperbole" during his description of the incident.
Baker's mother,Steelx offer men and women pure salereplicashoes modern jewelry including inox rings, Cheryl, sobbed as Weiner described the moments before Gormley's car struck her son.Find shoxshoes in many styles and colors.
"He was literally knocked out of his shoes and clothes," Weiner said.
Cheryl Baker left the room when Weiner played surveillance video, gathered from a business along the road, that showed the car striking her son, his body flying up onto the windshield.
Reading a statement to the court, Cheryl Baker said she wasn't happy with the plea deal. She didn't want the case decided by attorneys, but by a jury of Baker's peers. She said she's waited one year and 11 days for Gormley to be held accountable.Buy visually stunning and durable tungstenjewelry from Larson Jewelers.
She referred to Gormley's vehicle as a "motorized missile" and said she thinks about how her son must have seen his death coming. Since the crash, Cheryl Baker has cried every day.
When Beaverton police officers arrived at the crash, Gormley told them she had a green light and wasn't speeding, Washington County Deputy District Attorney Jason Weiner said. Investigators conducting a reconstruction of the crash later determined Gormley, 24, was traveling between 64 and 70 miles per hour – in a 35-mile-per-hour zone – during the Nov. 30, 2011 incident.
In a lengthy and emotional hearing Tuesday morning before Washington County Circuit Judge Janelle Wipper, Gormley, of Aloha, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and was sentenced to two years in prison. A grand jury in March indicted Gormley, who has no criminal history, on one count each of second-degree manslaughter and reckless driving.
Baker, who lived in Beaverton, was on his way to catch a Tri-Met MAX train for work at a downtown Portland Subway when he started to cross Canyon Road as the signal for traffic heading west on the highway turned yellow. Weiner said Gormley, who was traveling west, was about 400 feet from the Watson Avenue intersection and accelerated as the light turned yellow. As she entered the intersection, the light turned red, and she struck Baker.
Gormley told authorities she couldn't see him until it was too late.
Baker and Gormley both contributed to his death, Weiner said. But if Gormley was going the speed limit,cheap suprashoesforsale for women online, Weiner said, Baker would have been reasonable to think her light would turn red before she reached the intersection.
"If he waited for the walk sign, he wouldn't have been hit," Weiner said. "But he already paid for that. He's dead."
Weiner, who argued Gormley should receive three years in prison, told the court Gormley's reckless behavior and aggressive driving started before the crash. As she was driving on Southwest Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, she veered across the roadway to take a right at Lombard Avenue, nearly striking a car, Weiner said. She then passed the driver in an oncoming traffic lane, Weiner described, and flipped the driver off.
Gormley's attorney later disputed the gesture, and added that Weiner used "hyperbole" during his description of the incident.
Baker's mother,Steelx offer men and women pure salereplicashoes modern jewelry including inox rings, Cheryl, sobbed as Weiner described the moments before Gormley's car struck her son.Find shoxshoes in many styles and colors.
"He was literally knocked out of his shoes and clothes," Weiner said.
Cheryl Baker left the room when Weiner played surveillance video, gathered from a business along the road, that showed the car striking her son, his body flying up onto the windshield.
Reading a statement to the court, Cheryl Baker said she wasn't happy with the plea deal. She didn't want the case decided by attorneys, but by a jury of Baker's peers. She said she's waited one year and 11 days for Gormley to be held accountable.Buy visually stunning and durable tungstenjewelry from Larson Jewelers.
She referred to Gormley's vehicle as a "motorized missile" and said she thinks about how her son must have seen his death coming. Since the crash, Cheryl Baker has cried every day.
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