January 17, 2014
Page 19
The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch
SNOW HILL A Salisbury wom-
an charged in June with hit-and-run
and leaving the scene of an acci-
dent after striking a 6-year-old girl
on Baltimore Avenue following the
annual Ravens Parade was sen-
tenced last week to three years in
jail with all but 18 months suspend-
ed, two years of probation after her
release and a $500 fine.
Around 1:45 p.m. on June 1,
2013, Ocean City Police and EMS
responded to the area of 19th Street
and Baltimore Avenue for a report of
a child struck by a vehicle. OCPD
officers arrived on the scene and
determined Jaclyn Shaw, 6, and her
mother, Erin Shaw, were attempting
to cross Baltimore Avenue from
east to west in a crosswalk at 19th
Street when the child was struck by
a vehicle traveling southbound. The
accident occurred
as many pedestri-
ans were leaving
the area on foot
following the an-
nual Ravens Par-
ade downtown.
The vehicle's
driver, later identi-
fied Jasmine Shu-
man, 18, of Salisbury, initially stop-
ped after the collision, but then fled
the scene. Shuman later told police
she stopped and intended to stay,
but panicked when a crowd gath-
ered at the scene. Shuman was lo-
cated a short time later by an OCPD
foot officer as she was about to
head west in her vehicle across the
Route 50 Bridge.
Shuman was charged initially with
multiple traffic citations related to the
collision and appeared headed to
District Court. She was scheduled to
appear for trial in District Court in late
July when the Worcester County
Sheriff's Office added a charge of
second-degree assault, sending the
case to the Circuit Court.
Shuman appeared in Worcester
County Circuit Court in November and
ultimately pleaded guilty to an amend-
ed count of failure to remain at the
scene of an accident involving serious
bodily injury, which is a felony. Going
into the November proceedings, Shu-
man had not been charged with any
felonies related to the case. The plea
was somewhat unique because typi-
cally a count for which a defendant a-
grees to plead guilty is amended
down to a lesser charge with more
lenient maximum penalties. In this
case, however, the count to which
Shuman pleaded guilty was amended
up to a felony, which carried a maxi-
mum penalty of five years. A pre-sen-
tence investigation was ordered.
The victim was treated at the
scene and was later flown by Mary-
land State Police helicopter to the
University of Maryland Center for
Shock Trauma. She remained in the
hospital with severe head trauma
before being sent home.
Driver To Serve
18 Months In OC
Hit-And-Run Case
By SHAWN J. SOPER
NEWS EDITOR
JASMINE
SHUMAN
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