At Westword‘s request, Kimbrough asked prosecutors why the”white” part of the “white bitches” comment was left off theindictment; they were unsure of why it was omitted, but “it wasn’tintentional,” she says (That’s because the victim –right– “intentionally” run over was white and the prosecutors are cowards. — Ed.).
Parker and Goodrich explained how two women and a man in a Cadillac had pulled up behind Parker’s Hondain the Burger King drive-thru line, and how a dispute over a cigaretterequest had led to a chaotic altercation in the parking lot. Parkertold investigators that the women in the Cadillac had repeatedlyreferred to themselves as “Mexicans” and said they were going to killthe “stupid white bitches.” The last thing she heard them say beforethe Cadillac plowed into her mother, Parker remembered, was “Let’s justf—ing hit them.”
Verdonkschot died at the hospital several hours later, and thehit-and-run case was officially declared a homicide. Police pulledrecords that showed the Cadillac was registered to 26-year-old Nadine Montoya, who was living at her mother’s house in Westminster.The Cadillac was there, but Montoya wasn’t. Then investigators noticedthat the car had been stopped two weeks earlier after it had been”reported to have been used in an attempt to run a woman over in analley,” according to a May 30 affidavit. The alleged driver in thatincident was listed as Dawn Gonzales,whose photo was tentatively ID’d by Parker. The 23-year-old Gonzaleswas quickly arrested, only to be released two days later when policepinpointed Montoya as the driver. After three weeks on the run, sheturned herself in to Westminster police. On July 29, two months afterVerdonkschot’s death, a grand jury indicted Montoya on five felonycharges, including first-degree murder and leaving the scene of anaccident.