15 years for woman who ran over man after bar tab fight
A Minneapolis woman who pleaded guilty to attempted murder for running down a man with her car after a night out at a bar was sentenced to 15 years in prison, prosecutors said Friday.
According to the criminal complaint, Angela Dawn Jackson was invited to join some friends at The Bulldog Uptown on Lyndale Avenue South on Aug. 15. The group was asked to leave after they got into an argument about the bill.
Witnesses told police Jackson got into her car with two women, drove out of the parking lot and did a U-turn in an apparent attempt to run over one of the people she'd been arguing with. She hit a parked car instead.
Jackson then drove around the block and crossed over into the opposite side of the street hitting Tarrince Winbush. A man who was with Winbush at the bar and the women in the car with Jackson identified her as the driver.
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On Friday, the Hennepin County Attorney's Office said Jackson, 38, admitted that she was angry with the man Winbush was walking with, "because that man had hit her twice while they were in The Bulldog arguing about the bill, something the surveillance video confirmed."
She said she was so angry with that man that she drove directly at him at close to 40 miles per hour, intending to "take him out" but hit Winbush instead, prosecutors said.
Winnbush is still in a coma. He has a 3-year-old son.
Jackson on Friday told the sentencing judge that Winbush "was never my enemy," and repeated several times that she was sorry, the county attorney's office said.