Hit-and-run bishop kills cyclist

[Gravity Aided]

I also see the church itself is investigating. I know Bishop Sutton had a closed door meeting with clergy over this recently. That was Tuesday.
http://patch.com/maryland/towson/maryland-bishop-episcopal-clergy-discuss-fatal-bike-crash-0

 

[Gravity Aided]

Now in custody of the authorities.
Charged with:
Felony vehicular manslaughter
Criminal negligent manslaughter
Failure to remain at the scene of an accident resulting in serious injury and death
Using a text messaging device that resulted in an accident
3 charges of drunk driving.
.22 blood alcohol level
Could be 20 years prison.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bishop-faces-manslaughter-dui-charges-fatal-hit-run-28113034
http://www.wsj.com/articles/marylan...ter-charges-in-alleged-hit-and-run-1420823350

 

[Gravity Aided]

2.5 million $ bond
https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2015/01/09/bishop-heather-cooks-bail-set-at-2-5-million/

 

[Gravity Aided]

The Hit and Run Bishop has a new address.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bishop-charged-cyclist-death-remain-baltimore-jail-28174290
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[jefmcg]

I just googled it. There are approximately 20 women Episcopalian bishops in the US. Now one has killed a cyclist, and one has lost her husband in a cycling fatality.

 

[glenn forger]

I thought she might have got away with leaving the scene, cos she returned. In fact that act was cited in setting the bail so high. Flight risk. Bravo.

 

[Hip Priest]

Now that's one bishop I would like to kick up the arse.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Now that's one bishop I would like to kick up the arse.

In the Episcopal Church, I know of a few. Present one in my diocese is a bit of the alright, though. But the Midwest is a bit more conservative, and bordering on Anglo-Catholic.

 

[Gravity Aided]

A friend of the Bishop's from seminary has bailed her out.
http://www.courant.com/religion-and-beliefs/bs-md-ci-bishop-cook-posts-bail-20150116-46-story.html

 

[KneesUp]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-thomas-palermo-20141230-story.html
Thomas Palermo, a man devoted to cycling and his family. What a sad thing, that a man this talented has to die at age 41 ....

He didn't have to die. He died because someone - believed to be Heather Elizabeth Cook - killed him by striking him with her car which she was apparently driving whilst drunk.

 

[Gravity Aided]

National Episcopal Church, now being subjected to disciplinary proceedings by National Church in US.
http://www.christiantoday.com/artic...5m.bail.following.fatal.hit.and.run/46296.htm
Preliminary hearing is set in early February.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Drunk at her own installation as bishop?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...b8c5f0-ab4f-11e4-abe8-e1ef60ca26de_story.html

 

[srw]

Drunk at her own installation as bishop?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...b8c5f0-ab4f-11e4-abe8-e1ef60ca26de_story.html

That's not what the story says. She was (apparently, allegedly, possibly) drunk during the dinner to celebrate her installation, held two days before the installation itself.

And from my experience it's practically mandatory for Anglican priests to get drunk once in a while. The last time I was drunk was in the company of two of them and their husbands.

(Not that I'm alleging alcoholism against them, or making light of the Bishop's alcoholism.)

 

[Gravity Aided]

Hence the question mark.

 

[KneesUp]

The question mark reads as though you are implying that she was drunk at her installation - especially as no-one who had read that article could have been in any doubt that it is referring to the dinner two days beforehand.