Man-on-car murder of 31-year-old Phillip Moreno is in the news again because suspect Sherri Lynn sentencing hearing has been postponed until June. The man-on-car murder case was of a woman named Sherri Lynn Wilkins who allegedly drove for miles with the now dead man Phillip Moreno on her car.
Sherri Lynn Wilkins, the California woman involved in the man-on-car murder case was found guilty of striking and killing a man with her car. Wilkins allegedly drove with the man's body on her windshield for two miles, and her sentencing had just been postponed Wednesday.
The man-on-car murder woman Sherri Lynn Wilkins is a 52-year-old former drug counsellor, and because of the man-on-car murder crime, she was convicted of second-degree murder, drunken driving and hit-and-run charges. According to a report by the Associated Press, the charges were filed in February for killing 31-year-old Phillip Moreno.
Wilkins was supposedly due to be sentenced Wednesday, but the man-on-car murder woman's court appearance was postponed until June, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Sherri Lynn Wilkins is facing 45 years to life in prison for the crime she committed in November 2012.
So what really happened with the man-on-car murder case?
According to KTLA, Sherri Lynn Wilkins drove through Torrance with a dying Phillip Moreno stuck to her windshield. She didn't stop the car until a crowd surrounded her car and restrained her until the police arrived. Moreno didn't make it and he died at the nearest hospital. Man-on-car murder suspect, Wilkins, had a blood alcohol level of .17 - over twice the legal limit during the night of the crime. Traces of marijuana were also found in her system.
According to the Inquisitr, "Wilkins didn't just hit Moreno with her car and drive away. She hit him so hard that his pants and shoes flew off and landed yards away in the street. She hit him so hard that his body crashed part way through the windshield of her Mitsubishi. But that's not even the whole story of the man-on-car murder. As Wilkins drove with Moreno jammed through her smashed windshield, she made two cell phone calls to her husband. At one point - after driving the man on her car past a gas station and a firehouse - she could have taken a turn that led to a hospital just minutes away."
John Harlan, the Deputy District Attorney called the man-on-car murder case "a complete tragedy" at the time of the verdict.
Man-on-car murder woman Sherri Lynn Wilkins could get a life sentence because prior to the death of Moreno, she had two burglary convictions and February's guilty verdict constitutes a third strike, reports KTLA.
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