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phoenix_echo

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:47 am


This is an excerpt from my mom's blog:

Bonnie
Say a Prayer Please
I was coming home Friday and there was an accident at the end of my street. I asked if they needed 911 called and they said no that everyone was ok. I started to turn down my street and saw this girl laying by the road so I stopped. I ran over to her and she was moaning and it was obvious that her hip was broken and that she had possible broken ribs and that her stomach was injured with possible internal injuries. There was another man beside me that was on the phone with 911 and as I felt for a pulse I told him to tell them my observations and that her pulse was very weak.

She stopped moaning and she was not breathing..... Her eyes were closed and I asked her to moan if she could hear me before starting mouth to mouth. She started moaning on her own and would stop again... We kept asking her to moan so we know she was breathing. I do not know if she could hear us but every time we ask she did. This was the only response we could get out of her so we stuck with it.

A few minutes later this guy runs up and leans over her and I told him to get off of her because he was on her pelvis. He pushed me over into the street and laid on top of her..... I went to the other side of her and kept talking to her and kept her moaning and kept his body from making contact with her because he was still over her. When the cops showed up he got him up and away from her.

Paramedics showed up and I told him my observations and he took her pulse and asked for an airway kit. They worked on her for a few minutes and took her away.

The guy that hovered over her is the one who hit her. He hit her on purpose. and not only that he hit her and left her there, ran to a nearby house of someone he knew and changed his clothes before coming back. One of the other guys and me both asked where her purse was because it was on the side of the road but it was no longer there. Turns out it was thrown in the woods by the [jerk] that hit her.

After the ambulance left we gave the cops our info and I took the kids home. I waited a few and called the hospital to check on her and they said that trauma was working on her and they were trying to contact family. A little while later someone came to the house and told me that she had died and the detectives needed to talk to me. So I went back down and told them that I could smell alcohol on him and that he left the scene.

CSI showed up and they were going over the scene for about 3 hours at least.

A little while later I talked to an officer and he said she was in surgery so I called the hospital back to check..... They said of course that they couldnt give me any info but that she was in surgery.

I had yet another woman come over yesterday and say that Shanna was in SICU from what she had heard so I called the hospital and they informed me after I told them I just wanted to know if she was alive that yes they had her there. I left my number for the family to call when they could.

Today this same woman found me and gave me Shannas mothers phone number and told me she wanted to talk to me about the accident. I called her and she wanted to meet at the hospital

I went to the hospital and it turns out that she had surgery to repair her spleen and her bladder and that her pelvis was shattered. there are marks on her stomach where she was hit and she is on a ventilator and in a coma. When she wakes up she will be taken to Orlando and she will have surgery on her pelvis to repair it.

While I was there 2 women showed up and told her mom that they were friends of Shannas and that they wanted to see her. She refused because they stated they knew James, the guy that hit her.

No one knows where James is because he got away somehow while he was in the hospital. The cops lost him. He said he had a brain tumor and he doesnt care what happens to him anymore. Shannas mother told these 2 women that showed up to let him know she knows he hit her on purpose and that he had better hope that the brain tumor kills him before she finds him.

So what I want anyone to do that reads this post is to pray for Shanna and her mother, her step father, and her sisters Brittany and Nicole. She needs it for she has a long road to recovery ahead of her.

Thank you


emo Please keep Shanna and her family in your prayers.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:48 am


Update 1:

Bonnie
I spoke with Carrie yesterday about her daughter and she said she is still not responding. She said she had been in contact with police and they said they were trying to get the stories straight because James said that Shanna was driving. The evidence says otherwise but I guess they are going to have to wait til she wakes up and interview her. They want to make sure that if she was not in the truck and James ran her over that he does not get off.

I did some checking online for his record and he has been jailed for everything short of murder. Drugs, assult and battery, leaving the scene of an accident, resisting arrest with and without violence. His ex girlfriend had a permenant restraining order against him.

All I can say is keep her and her family in your prayers that she can come out of this.

phoenix_echo


phoenix_echo

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:50 am


Update 2:

Bonnie
I talked to Carrie this morning. She said Shanna is stable but still unconscious. Orlando is waiting for a spot to open and they are going to transfer her over for the other surgery. She heard from the detective this morning but I wont go into what was said right now. I will when Carrie tells me it is ok and they have the [son of a biscuit-eater].


James was Shanna's boyfriend. However, she didn't know about his charges, because they had only been dating a few days.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:53 am


Update 3:

Bonnie

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Carrie called tonight and they issued a warrent for James' arrest. She said they put his pic up at the hospital so he cant get in. She wanted me to snoop and see if I could find out where he was. Well, Rose was down the street, Rose is the woman that gave me Carries phone number, She asked how Shanna was doing and I told her not good. She then asked why the [son of a biscuit-eater] was not in jail and said she just saw him down the road about 5 minutes before... I asked her where, and she told me. I called Carrie and gave her the location and she reported it. About 15-20 minutes after I hung up with her I heard sirens down the street in the direction he was last seen so hopefully they got him. The pic is of James. It is, needless to say, a mug shot from one of many arrests.

phoenix_echo


Itesa

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:51 pm


Wow. Some people... that's horrible. *prays for Shanna and her family*

*For that matter, prays also for that James guy... brain tumor or no that's not a good path he's walking.*
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:35 pm


wow, she's in my prayers

AutumnFalls89


ConcreteAngel
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:36 pm


Thats horrible. I will certainly pray for her. Why was he on her by the way? And did they catch him? I want to hear all the updates.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:19 pm


I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread too. I can't believe what people will do. It's so sad. I'll absolutely keep her and everyone in that whole situation in my prayers.

LDSeraphim


phoenix_echo

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:25 pm


ConcreteAngel
Thats horrible. I will certainly pray for her. Why was he on her by the way? And did they catch him? I want to hear all the updates.

He came back out, and laid on her, I think because he knew it would crush her even further. My mom (she's not my biological mother, by the way, just a lady that I talk to as if she were my mom; she lives in FL) kept him off of her the best that she could. That's one of the main reasons as to why her pelvis is crushed. Think about it, first she was hit by a truck, and then the man who ran over her came out and laid on her, so whatever wounds that she got from being hit were only intensified by him laying on her.


Yes, they have caught him: www.polksheriff.org/cgi-bin/i080914?book=2006015384

Also, I plan on keeping this thread as updated as her blog, or as often as she tells me information, so please do check back for further news.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:26 pm


Thank you all so very much for doing this! It means so much to me, to mom, and to Shanna and her family.

phoenix_echo


Itesa

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:48 pm


Wow, that gave me quite a turn! It said "Statute: Homicide -- Wilful Kill -- Mudrder Premeditated" but then I saw the official charge was "ATTEMPTED Homicide." So Shanna's okay so far.
PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:45 am


Itesa
Wow, that gave me quite a turn! It said "Statute: Homicide -- Wilful Kill -- Mudrder Premeditated" but then I saw the official charge was "ATTEMPTED Homicide." So Shanna's okay so far.

Yes, she's all right for now. Hopefully she'll wake up from her coma soon, so they can repair her pelvis.

phoenix_echo


phoenix_echo

PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:31 pm


Important Update!

Bonnie
Shanna's responding!!!!!!!!!


Thank you all so much for your prayers! They really do work, and they really are appreciated!
PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:30 pm


Yay! whee heart

Itesa


phoenix_echo

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:28 pm


Update 5: Meet Shaina

Bonnie
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Meet Shaina. She is starting to respond.... She is opening her eyes a little and moving her leg. Karrie said that she squeezed her hand the other day too. Very good signs indeed. She will be setting up a medical fund and for those of you who have asked I will put the info for the fund on here so you can send your donations into her. She has a long road to recovery ahead of her so keep her in your prayers!


Also: it turns out that we were misspelling names. sweatdrop Hehe. Sorry about that!
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