Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 12:13am
Parpalegic found guilty in fatal hit/run crash
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Updated Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 12:23am
A paraplegic who used a stick to operate the pedals of his car has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a firefighter he hit as she tended an injured man.
Superior Court Judge Jerome Herlihy found 29-year-old Joseph Taye of Bear guilty
Friday in the death of 29-year-old Michelle Smith.
The accident occurred on Dec. 20 on Route 13 in Delaware City.
Police said Taye was driving a car that sideswiped a police car at the scene of a
motorcycle accident, went out of control and struck Smith and the motorcyclist.
The driver of another car helped Taye into his vehicle and took off.
Taye had been charged in a November 2007 hit-and-run accident in Elkton.
That case was placed on the inactive docket.
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