Crime & Safety
Rider Student Indicted in Hit-And-Run Death
A 19-year-old Rider University student and a 52-year-old Ewing Township woman were each indicted by a grand jury recently in connection with the "vehicular homicide" of a 54-year-old man last year.
Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office.
A Mercer County grand jury returned an indictment Friday [Feb. 24] charging a Rider student and a Ewing woman with the vehicular homicide of 54-year-old Carl Wilkins, Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini Jr. announced.
The two-count indictment charges Laura Gallagher, 19, of Flanders, NJ, and Marie Jean, 52, of Berwyn Avenue, Ewing, NJ, with one count each of death by auto and leaving the scene of an accident. Both are second-degree crimes that carry a penalty of five to 10 years in state prison.
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Wilkins was struck by both a sliver Jeep and a BMW on Oct. 28, 2011, at approximately 10:40 p.m. as he was crossing Parkside Avenue near Ives Avenue in Ewing. Both vehicles fled the scene.
Both Gallagher and Jean are free on bail.Â
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Assistant Prosecutor Skylar Weissman presented the case to the grand jury.
Despite having been indicted, every defendant is presumed innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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