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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sickening story.  Curious why they are charging the deaths as murder; presumably they'll downgrade unless there is something more going on (like she thought her husband was drinking there, as one witness speculated).

If this wasn't an intentional act, a 66-year old with no criminal history will probably get a relatively light sentence.  Sucks for the victims but that's how it goes.[/quote]

The sentences for DWI never cease to amaze me. Brian Schwartz, rich white man from Columbia Maryland was at a work happy hour with his colleagues who witnessed him downing a more than 6 drinks, left and crashed his Mercedes into a 17 year old black kid Esai López who was riding his bicycle.  He  left the kid for roadkill rather than call for help, and didn't get charged with DWI because he hit and ran and didn't turn himself in for days by which time his blood alcohol level was back to normal.   Despite killing that kid, he served just a few weeks in jail. But Lopez’s family was poor and not able to keep the story in the media.

https://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene...il-after-deadly.html[/quote]

Disgusting outcome. Some places care more about criminals than innocent victims. [/quote]

I live near Redland Road and there has been a roadside memorial there all these years since the tragedy. I hope the driver has faced consequences in his life; he’ll always have a criminal record.[/quote]

Ugh, can’t find more than one article about this case. This was a beautiful, very loved 17 year old boy who was left in the road like trash. I hope that driver has nightmares every night. He is not searchable online - must’ve had his presence scrubbed clean.

Brian Schwartz - murderer.[/quote]

There were articles in the Maryland Gazette at the time...now no longer accessible.  But yes, the poor black teen getting left for road kill while the man who killed him got a few weeks in prison did not make much of a splash in the news media of the DMV.  I found it vomit inducing then, and very sad more years later.  I hope Esai Lopez's family has found peace in the wake of an unimaginable tragedy, and I hope Brian Schwartz got what he deserved after being released from jail far too early, whatever that may be.[/quote]

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