dent involving bodily injury after
striking a 6-year-old girl now faces
second-degree assault and other
serious charges after the Worcester
County State's Attorney's Office on
Thursday moved the case to Circuit
Court.
scheduled to appear in
District Court last Thursday
afternoon to face multiple
traffic citations issued after
the accident on June 1
when she allegedly struck
a 6-year-old girl in a cross-
walk at 19th Street and
Baltimore Avenue.
day filed criminal information on
Shuman, essentially charging her
now with second-degree assault
and six other counts including leav-
ing the scene of an accident involv-
ing bodily injury.
Shuman from District Court to the
Worcester County Circuit Court and
arraignment has been set for Aug.
14 with a tentative trial date laid in
for Nov. 6.
struck by a vehicle.
Jaclyn Shaw and her mother, Erin
Shaw, were attempting to cross Bal-
timore Avenue from east to west in
a crosswalk when the child was
struck by a vehicle traveling south-
bound.
she stop-ped and intended
to stay, but panicked when
a crowd gathered at the
scene. Shuman was locat-
ed a short time later by an
OCPD foot officer as she
was about to head west in
her vehicle across the
Route 50 bridge at North
Division Street.
and was later flown by Maryland
State Police helicopter to the
University of Maryland Medical
Center for Shock Trauma for exten-
sive treatment.
immediately stop at the scene of an
accident involving bodily injury, fail-
ure to immediately return and re-
main at the scene of an accident
involving bodily injury, failure of a
driver involved in a bodily injury
accident to furnish ID and license
and failure of a vehicle driver to
report bodily injury to nearest police.
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