{"id":8656,"date":"2014-12-23T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2014-12-23T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T19:02:42","slug":"caln-police-make-arrest-in-hit-and-run-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=8656","title":{"rendered":"Caln police make arrest in hit-and-run death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_100585\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GineBennett-300x226.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100585\" class=\" wp-image-1005852\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"GineBennett\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GineBennett-300x226.png\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gine Bennett<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CALN \u2014 Township police said Tuesday they have charged a Coatesville woman in the Dec. 4 hit-and-run death of 19-year-old\u00a0Ke\u2019asya Gray on Lincoln Highway in the Thorndale section of the township.<\/p>\n<p>Township police charged Gina Marie Bennett, 48, of Coatesville, Tuesday, and she surrendered in\u00a0Downingtown District Court and was released after posting $300,000 in bail.\u00a0District Justice Jeffrey Valocchi arraigned Bennett and released her on $300K unsecured bail, pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for Feb. 4, 2015.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She faces the following charges:\u00a0Homicide by Vehicle While Under the Influence, \u00a0Homicide by Vehicle,\u00a0Accidents Involving Death or Personal Injury, \u00a0Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or Controlled Substance, (failure in)\u00a0Duty to Give Information and Render Aid, (failure to)\u00a0Driving on Roadways Laned for Traffic and\u00a0Reckless Driving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe days following this tragedy have seemed like an eternity for a family that just lost their second child in the span of two months,\u201d \u00a0Caln Police Chief Joseph Elias said in a statement issued by the department.\u00a0 \u201cI thank the Gray family for their patience and support throughout this investigation.\u00a0 Our investigators worked diligently and methodically to build a strong case and bring a coward and a killer to justice.\u00a0 While the arrest of Gina Bennett will do little to console a grieving family, at a time of year that should bring joy and happiness, I trust that it will aid in the healing process and offer some sense of closure to this horrific crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said that Bennett fled the scene of the accident after striking Gray, but that the vehicle was located the next day in a local auto body shop. Bennett fairly quickly became a person of interest in the case, police said. Tuesday charges were the result of the ensuring investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALN \u2014 Township police said Tuesday they have charged a Coatesville woman in the Dec. 4 hit-and-run death of 19-year-old\u00a0Ke\u2019asya Gray on Lincoln Highway in the Thorndale section of the township. Township police charged Gina Marie Bennett, 48, of Coatesville, Tuesday, and she surrendered in\u00a0Downingtown District Court and was released after posting $300,000 in bail.\u00a0District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[945,5164,5066,947],"class_list":["post-8656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-caln","tag-fatal-accident","tag-hit-and-run","tag-lincoln-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}