A DREAM DEMOLISHED : DRUG ADDICT'S NEW START ENDS IN FATAL CRASH.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer Ann Lockner died clutching the poison that had bedeviled her life. The 40-year-old Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. woman had been penniless pen·ni·less adj. 1. Entirely without money. 2. Very poor. See Synonyms at poor. pen  ni·less·ly adv. , without a
steady job, a car or a home for herself and her 7-year-old daughter.
But recently she found another chance through a Thousand Oaks family's offer of housing, a car and a shot at a new job. That chance at redemption ended at 1:35 p.m. Thursday. Lockner's 1990 Mercury Sable The Mercury Sable was originally a mid-size car, and is now a full-size car created by the Ford Motor Company and sold under the semi-luxury Mercury brand. It is the mechanical counterpart of the Ford Taurus. - bought by her benefactors two weeks earlier - slammed into a power pole on Nordhoff Street. When authorities found her, she was still holding the six-tenths of a gram of rock cocaine that police said she had just bought. ``It's tragic, it's terribly tragic - the real victim in this is the child,'' said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Detective Pat Ramsey. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . . . . What drives you to go back to this stuff?'' Kassandra Bellamy, Lockner's child, is staying with Larry and Lois Ross, the couple that took in the girl and her mother in August. The Rosses broke the news to the little girl on Friday, telling her that her mother had a ``bad accident, driving very fast.'' ``She asked if her mother would be back, and I told her she'd see her mother in heaven,'' Lois Ross said. Larry Ross said that his ``big concern right now is what is going to happen to Kassandra.'' ``That poor girl is only 7 years old, with no family around here,'' he said. Officials with the Ventura County office of Child Protective Services child protective services Sociology A state or county agency that addresses issues of child abuse and neglect , which will decide what to do with the child, did not return phone calls Friday. Ross said he doesn't know much about the girl's father, who lives outside the area. Ross said he hoped that Kassandra could be placed with a foster care home associated with the Church on the Way in Van Nuys, where Lockner had been a member of the congregation before she was evicted from her Van Nuys apartment. Lockner had battled alcohol and drug abuse, but Ross said she appeared to be trying to get her life straightened out - which made the circumstances of her death especially hard to take. ``I can't judge other people,'' Ross said. ``We took her in on good faith, not knowing any of this, trying to do the Christian thing - to help your neighbor. ``It was like putting it on a golden platter in front of her,'' said Ross, whose wife was a former co-worker of Lockner's. ``All she had to do was take it. We had given her every opportunity she could possibly have to straighten out.'' Ross said Lockner was in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. on Thursday to take a special course she needed to be cleared for a job at Robert F. Kennedy Medical Center. With the course completed, she could have started as soon as the following Monday. Details of what happened to Lockner are not entirely clear, according to police. Her car crashed into a pole, after careening The careening of a sailing vessel is laying her up on a calm beach at high tide in order to expose one side or another of the ship's hull for maintenance below the water line when the tide goes out. down Nordhoff Street with a man clinging to the side of the vehicle. The 24-year-old man, who was thrown clear and not seriously injured The casualty status of a person whose injury may or may not require hospitalization; medical authority does not classify as very seriously injured, seriously injured, or incapacitating illness or injury; and the person can communicate with the next of kin. Also called NSI. See also casualty status. , told police he had been trying to hitch a ride from Lockner. ``He said he was trying to get back to (his home in) Lake View Terrace,'' Ramsey said. ``He supposedly was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a ride from the people in the neighborhood and saw this gal. She had stopped there. ``She had bought drugs. She held (the crack cocaine) tightly in her hands,'' he said. ``Apparently, she was driving down the street trying to shake (the man) off.'' An investigation is continuing, and funeral arrangements are pending. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: An officer inspects the scene of the car crash in which Ann Lockner was killed Thursday afternoon. David R. Crane/Daily News |
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