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18-year-old Lakewood woman stalked before shooting death

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That Friday morning, a 13-year-old girl ran to the window of her home.

Sandra JoAnn Rushing, 18

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There was an unusual disturbance in the quiet Lakewood neighborhood where she lived near West Kentucky Drive and South Simms Street.

Someone had just slammed the gearshift on a blue 1970 AMC Rebel into reverse and floored the accelerator. The young teen-ager had heard tire wheels screeching.

The car careened backward and struck the curb on the south side of Kentucky. The driver overcorrected and – still going backward – the car struck the north curb of the street.

The car had gone nearly the entire block backward, zig-zagging all the way, almost to Simms.

Then the 13-year-old girl heard a loud blast from a large caliber hand gun. A bullet had pierced the blue car’s front windshield.

When the girl looked out the window of her home on West Kentucky Drive she saw a car spinning wildly in circles.

The car did three circles before it plowed over the south curb again and smashed into a stop sign.

The girl saw a man walking down the street after the was fired.

Two young girls walking on Briarwood Street saw another blue car with a man and a small boy stop near the crashed car. The man then sped away.

A motorcyclist, David Williams of Lakewood, stopped by the car and opened the door to look inside. A tiny black poodle leaped out of the car and ran away.

Williams saw a young woman slumped over in the passenger seat. Williams opened the door and entered the car. He pressed his palm against the woman’s neck, trying to stop bleeding from a bullet hole.


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