Kelly D. Payne: smiling, drunk, deadly
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Richmond Police say that for the second time in under five years former Albemarle resident Kelly Dinelle Payne, age 33, has killed someone with a vehicle. Her latest alleged victim was a man, an Indian immigrant, walking home from hotel work March 7 when an allegedly drunk Payne, fleeing one accident, drove up on a median.Today, WINA radio reports that Payne, 33, is a former Crozet resident who attended Western Albemarle High School– and shows her smiling mug shot.
Yesterday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch told the heart-breaking story of Payne’s first victim, a 13-year old killed in Tennessee, and the girl’s father’s regret that Payne, released from jail in October after serving three and half years for involuntary manslaughter, didn’t serve more jail time.
“We are going to prosecute this lady, quite frankly, for everything we can,” the Times-Dispatch quotes a Richmond prosecutor who is seeking murder charges against the dyed-blonde woman who allegedly strolled into a restaurant half an hour after the accident and tried to order another beer.
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Kelly D. Payne is certainly responsible for the trail of carnage she has inflicted statewide. But let there be no mistake, the Criminal Justice system is just as much to blame. She should have still been in jail for the first senseless death and manslaughter conviction in May of 2002.
Maybe this time she will serve 5 years instead of 3 1/2 years. /Steve
[...] The former Crozet resident whose beaming widely for mugshot after allegedly killing a Richmond pedestrian was charged with yesterday by a multi-jurisdictional grand jury, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Kelly Dinelle Payne, 33, had blood-alcohol level of .22 percent at least four hours after she allegedly struck hotel worker Ashokkumar Patel, 51, with a pickup truck on March 7, according to the story.Payne is a former Crozet resident whose 2002 DUI conviction in Albemarle County made her a habitual offender, a fact underscored by her 2001 arrest for her hit-and-run killing of a 13-year-old girl in Tennessee. The Times-Dispatch reports that her lawyer contends that his client– described in a readthehook.com/blog headline as smiling, drunk, deadly– is actually remorseful and may be enveloped in “medication” and “profound psychological issues.”# [...]