BREAKING: Heather Cook indicted on new charges

The Baltimore Brew
February 4, 2015

https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2015/02/04/heather-cook-indicted-on-new-charges/

The “ghost bike” dedicated at a vigil for bicyclist Thomas Palermo.

A city grand jury has indicted Episcopal Bishop Heather E. Cook on additional counts arising from her fatal crash with bicyclist Tom Palermo on December 27, the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office announced this afternoon.

In addition to four original criminal charges involving manslaughter, homicide by a motor vehicle while impaired, leaving the scene of a fatal accident and several traffic charges – Cook was indicted today on a series of related counts, including reckless driving, negligent driving, drunk driving, texting while driving and failure to stop a vehicle as close as possible to the scene of an accident.

Cook, the newly installed bishop suffragan of the Maryland Episcopal Diocese, is receiving residential treatment for alcohol abuse at Father Martin’s Ashley retreat in Havre de Grace after posting $2.5 million in bail after the original charges were filed by the state’s attorney on January 9.

Arraignment is scheduled on March 5^th..