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Wanted for killing a man with her car
By adamg on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 6:02pm
UPDATE: Arrested in New York more than a year later.
State Police are looking for a Winthrop woman on charges she ran down a Revere man this past Dec. 31, then fled.
Milena Johana Henao Giraldo, also known as Milena Henao, allegedly smashed into George Azarian, 61, as he tried to cross Ocean Avenue at Shirley Avenue, then just kept driving.
At one point, investigators actually were in the same room with the woman, but at that point they did not realize she was the alleged driver.
According to Suffolk County DA Dan Conley, the accident was caught on tape by a city surveillance camera, but officials could not determine its plate number:
"Where high technology failed, old-fashioned detective work carried the day," Conley said. "For weeks on end, State Police detectives canvassed three cities and towns to find this vehicle and its driver." On Feb. 7, detectives arrived at the home of a Winthrop woman who had such a vehicle registered in her name. They spoke to the woman's daughter, who said that the car was at an East Boston garage having its speedometer repaired. Giraldo, a friend of the daughter, was present at the time of the interview."
After the interview, however, Giraldo took a cab to the garage, picked up the car and fled. Officials say the car was really Giraldo's, but that her friend's mother had registered the car to help the young woman save on insurance.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the State Police Suffolk County Detective Unit at 617-727-8817.
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hope they get you
as a member of the grand jury who indited this woman I am appaled by her selfishness and careless attitude about taking the life of a human being. If your out there turn yourself in and accept responsibility for your heinous actions. This poor man was just walking home from the store and you ran him down and left him dying in the street then you tried to have the car fixed before the police could find you. You are a monster and I hope they find you and bring you to justice. My heart goes out to the family and friends of George Azarian may he rest in eternal peace far from monsters like Melina Giraldo
think...
have you any idea of the many things that could of have gone through her head do you even know if she has family or have you thought about the fact that it was all an accident...
how would you feel if you are driving your car and you hit someone at full speed by mistake...you have not been in her shoes how dare you even try to compare her to a monster... do you know about her? her life? the kids? love? i understand what happened to george is horrible... but when you are scare who can judge if you run... to kill someone is very serious... but to do it and not really have a fault is worst. for people who dont even know her to judge her and compare her with a monster is sick. it wasnt done with malice... i dont know about the people you know but all i know is that so far at my 25 yrs of age i have never met anyone who runs over people just to kill. her mistake was to run... yes... but tell me you wouldnt of had judge her as a careless person then and still gave her time... would you have not????
Anonymous:
The fact that the woman who ran over a guy who was walking home from the store didn't do it out of malice is really not the issue here. There's a pecking order here: When it comes to cars vs. pedestrians, pedestrians have the right of way. That's how it's always been. The woman who hit the guy was legally at fault; she should've slowed down soon enough to avoid hitting him.
No no no. Pedestrians do not
No no no. Pedestrians do not invariably have the right of way, by Boston law. Unless you're a pedestrian who's crossing in a marked crosswalk, with the light (if there is one), you don't have the right of way.
Unless there's no marked crosswalk within 300 feet of where you are.
That said, I don't think that applies to this case, since it sounds like the guy was crossing at an intersection, which probably had a crosswalk.
Bonus fun fact: If you're crossing a street, and you fall in a pothole, and you're not in a crosswalk, but there's one within 300 feet of where you fell, and you try to collect damages from the City? Good luck with that.
Mass. has the highest per
Mass. has the highest per capita number of idiots who say "who can judge?" If the woman had a fork and bib on and was sitting on the Revere Parkway eating the guy's liver, you'd be telling me I should walk a mile in her shoes before I criticize. Damn state is full of them.
Who Can Judge?
Just wait till you walk a mile in the shoes of the people telling you "who can judge?". You may think it's easy constantly abandoning any pretense of a real moral compass for the cheap thrill of faux-wise universal faultlessness, but what if these people have families, or at least small dogs? If you were in their confused and highly anxious shoes, would you not also bristle with anger at the merest criticism of people like this woman, who kill regular folks like you and me and then run away without a twinge of remorse?
Obviously you need to walk a mile in shoes a of a non-judgementalist before you can truly understand their pain.