Rebecca Jaramillo stepped out of the Santa Fe jail and into the cold one night in January 2021. After two days in a cell, she was free, but no one was there to pick her up. So, with a snowstorm coming, she began the long walk toward town.
The jail in Santa Fe, surrounded by barbed wire and tumbleweed, sits on a remote stretch of highway far from the city’s bustling plaza and historic churches. It is nearly two miles down the highway to the closest gas station, three miles to where a sidewalk starts and eight miles to the nearest homeless shelter.
Ms. Jaramillo, 33, made it only about a mile from the jail that night before she was hit by a sheriff’s deputy driving a police pickup truck at 57 miles per hour. Her body was thrown more than 100 feet, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
of course it has to be a cop driving a pickup truck
unambiguous premeditated murder but lets guess if it was investigated as such
Being thrown over 100 feet?? Either that sheriff was driving a trillion miles an hour more than 57, or was very intentionally accelerating as they hit them.
Not necessarily, here are some helpful formulae.
Doing some napkin math, a 50 mph collision would throw a pedestrian over 100 feet.
the more suspicious thing is a sherrif, who almost definitely came from the prison, would be unaware of and accidentally strike a person they just let out.
Absolutely, it's deeply suspicious and almost certainly an intentional murder. All I'm saying is the math adds up.
Cars have a crazy amount of mass and pedestrians can get thrown really surprising distances at much lower speeds than you might think.
Weird, but very fair enough.