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By
Andrew Michaels
- September 17, 2024
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A 23-year-old woman “attempted to hide her identity” by removing her license plate after she struck and killed victim Aaron Hall with her car last year, a Baltimore City prosecutor argued during the defendant’s bail review on Sept. 17.
According to the assistant state’s attorney, Megan Sherman was driving 81 mph in a 25 mph zone on July 19, 2023, when she ran through a red light and hit the 41-year-old victim who was crossing the street. After crashing the car, Sherman removed one of her license plates “to avoid detection” and was picked up by someone in a family member’s car.
Baltimore Police Department officers later went to the defendant’s home and saw she had an injury above one of her eyes. A bloodstain with Sherman’s likely DNA was also found on the driver’s airbag, the prosecutor said.
Sherman is currently charged with negligent vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent vehicular manslaughter, failing to immediately return and remain at the scene of an accident involving death and knowingly driving an uninsured vehicle.
Defense attorney Singleton Mathews told Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey M. Geller that his client turned herself in and never left the city, despite previously being considered a flight risk. Mathews noted that the prosecution’s evidence allegedly identifies Sherman as the driver and that the prosecutor’s statements about the license plate removal was not included in the statement of probable cause.
Although Sherman has no prior convictions, Judge Geller denied the defendant’s bail due to the nature of the charges.