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Woman has prior drunken driving conviction in NH

SANFORD, Maine —
The woman accused of driving onto a baseball field during a Babe Ruth baseball game, hitting and killing a spectator, appeared in court on Monday and was ordered held on $500,000 bail.

Carol Sharrow, 51, of Sanford, Maine, did not speak inside the courtroom, where she faced a manslaughter charge.

No plea was entered in the case, which is standard for initial court appearances in Maine.

Sharrow was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation.

Grief counselors were available at all schools in Sanford on Monday as classes resumed for the first time since the crash on Friday evening. Sanford schools are also providing guidance to parents on how to talk to their children about traumatic events.

Police believe hundreds of people, including many children, saw the crash.

Investigators said Sharrow drove through an open gate and onto the field, hitting and killing Douglas Parkhurst, 68, who was watching his grandson's Little League game.

In 2013, Parkhurst admitted he was drunk behind the wheel of a vehicle that struck and killed a 4-year-old girl on Halloween 45 years earlier, according to police in Fulton, New York.

Witnesses to the incident on the baseball field said Parkhurst pushed children out of the way of Sharrow's car.

"We were trying to close the gate so she couldn't get out because you have little kids across the field," witness Mark Stuart said.

It is not clear why Sharrow drove onto the field.

While investigators have not said if alcohol was a factor in the ballfield crash, Sanford police said Sharrow has two drunken driving convictions -- one in Maine and one in New Hampshire. In 2002, she pleaded guilty to a crash in Portmouth.

Police in Maine are investigating a possible motive for the ballfield rampage and whether Sharrow was under the influence.
 
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Woman has prior drunken driving conviction in NH

SANFORD, Maine —
The woman accused of driving onto a baseball field during a Babe Ruth baseball game, hitting and killing a spectator, appeared in court on Monday and was ordered held on $500,000 bail.

Carol Sharrow, 51, of Sanford, Maine, did not speak inside the courtroom, where she faced a manslaughter charge.

Investigators said Sharrow drove through an open gate and onto the field, hitting and killing Douglas Parkhurst, 68, who was watching his grandson's Little League game.
In 2013, Parkhurst admitted he was drunk behind the wheel of a vehicle that struck and killed a 4-year-old girl on Halloween 45 years earlier, according to police in Fulton, New York.
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Darlene Ashby McCann, who was with her young sister when she was killed, says the tragedy came 'full circle' when Douglas Parkhurst was struck Friday by another hit-and-run driver.

The relatives of a 4-year-old girl killed in a hit-and-run incident a half-century ago in upstate New York said they feel relief that the man responsible for her death died at the hands of a hit-and-run driver Friday in Sanford.

On Halloween night in 1968, Darlene Ashby McCann of Palermo, New York, was holding the hand of her little sister, Carolee Ashby, when Douglas Parkhurst, then 18, hit the child from behind with his Buick Special as they walked along a road in Fulton, New York. It was McCann’s 15th birthday and the sisters were walking to the store to buy candles for her cake.

The case remained unsolved for 44 years, until a tip led to Parkhurst’s confession to police in 2013.

But for almost 50 years, even after the confession, the case has haunted Carolee Ashby’s family.

Parkhurst, 68, of West Newfield, died when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver during a Babe Ruth baseball game Friday evening at Goodall Park in Sanford. Police said Carol Sharrow, 51, of Sanford, drove her maroon Honda sedan onto the field, and it was unclear why Sharrow hit Parkhurst, who was there to watch his grandson play in the game.

Some witnesses said Parkhurst pushed several children to safety, while others said he was closing the park gate when he was hit. Police said there was no connection between Sharrow and Parkhurst, who moved to Maine five years ago. Sharrow has been charged with manslaughter and is being held at the York County Jail in Alfred. She has two previous drunken driving convictions – in Maine and New Hampshire – but police would not say whether alcohol was involved in Friday’s incident.

“I am overwhelmed by it all,” McCann said Sunday, speaking from her home in upstate New York.

She said the news has produced a feeling of relief for the first time since her sister’s death.
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So not only did this a$$hole hit and run on a little girl, he waited until the statue of limitations was past before he confessed. He’s trash.
 
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