On Thu, 10 May 2001 21:46:02 -0700, Keith Henson <hkhenson@pacbell.net> wrote:

snip As I mentioned, the one thing that is out of date is that just about a week after I mailed this with the Grand Jury and give copies to the Board of Supervisors and the DA's office, the DA filed charges in the Ashlee Shaner death.

At lunch break on the SF picket last weekend, I was talking about this and Kristi (one of the sharpest people I have met) asked what day of the week was May 17, 2000? It will come as no surprise to readers of the a.r.s weekly spam floods that it was a Wednesday.

Keith Henson
Hemet news 5/l0/2001 MAN PLEADS NOT GILTY IN DEATH OF SAN JACINTO GIRL
ARRAIGNMENT;;ASHLEE SHANER DIED AFTER ITTING A TRACTOR OPERATED BY THOMAS NOVE OF MORENO VALLEY By Erin D. Randolph
Hemet: A man involved in a traffic collision that killed a l6 year old San Jacinto girl pleaded not guilty to a charge of vehicular manslaughter Wednesday.

Thomas Nove 35, of Moreno Valley was taken into custody on an unrelated matter following the arraignment in Hemet. He is charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in connection with the death of Ashlee Shaner last year. She was killed the night of May l7, when her car crashed into the bucket of a tractor that was blocking Gilman Springs Road. She was returning to her San Jacinto home from an evening Bible study class.

Nove told police he was trying to park the vehicle but had blocked the road with the tractor to allow a paving vehicle to cross the highway, according to court records.

He told investigators that he saw two cars coming toward him but thought they would pull on to the road shoulder. Instead Ashlee's car crashed into the tractor, killing her.

Ashlee's sister Klarissa, then 8, ducked moments before impact and suffered minor injuries,Ashlee's mother, Michele Shaner, who was following her daughter home that night, told investigators the tractor was not visible.

Nove told officers he was working late that night Ashlee died to finish some work for the Church of Scientology's Golden Era Productions. According to an investigation report, Nove, who was employed with TaseCo Corp. a Redlands-based contractor, had an expired driver's license since l992. During the investigation, California Highway Patrol officer Eric Nolte said no warning lights, flares or construction workers were on the road to guide motorists around the tractor. There were no street lights in the area.
Erin D. Randolph can be reached by email at erandolph@pe.com or by phone at 909-487-5229

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