Maryland mother found guilty in crash that killed 3-year-old girl
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A Montgomery County judge found a 38-year-old woman guilty of six charges on Friday for a crash in 2022 that killed her 3-year-old daughter.
The Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office said in a news release that Danshell Evon of Bryans Road was found guilty of gross negligent manslaughter, four counts of second-degree assault and one count of neglect of a minor. She faces up to 55 years in prison.
The State’s Attorney’s Office said that Evon was driving on Connecticut Avenue near Atherton Drive around 7:30 a.m. on May 12, 2022, when she hit a pickup truck.
Evon’s three children were all passengers in her car. Two 13-year-olds had non-life-threatening injuries, but 3-year-old Dreamie Dior Jackson died because of her injuries.
Two people were inside the pickup truck at the time. Both of them had non-life-threatening injuries.
Police determined that Evon was driving over 98 mph right before the crash, the State’s Attorney’s Office release said. Dreamie was also “improperly secured in a backless booster seat which contributed to her death.”
“This heartbreaking loss of such a young member of our community is a tragedy that was easily avoidable. At the speeds the defendant was traveling, she wasn’t driving a car, she was steering a missile down the road in the middle of rush hour. If the barest of common-sense parenting skills were in place, there would have been a proper child safety seat installed,” State’s Attorney John McCarthy said in the release.
Evon’s sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 9.
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