LIGHT SHED ON LAST MOMENTS OF WOMAN FLEEING EX-LOVER.Byline: BRAD A. GREENBERG Staff Writer SAN FERNANDO San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. -- Shayla Phillips spoke calmly as she told a 911 dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. that she was being followed by a vengeful ex-lover. But as she sped around Northridge and North Hills last May -- unfamiliar territory for a girl from South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. -- Phillips grew anxious. Her cell phone dropped the 911 call and when she redialed she frantically fran·tic adj. 1. Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration; frenzied: frantic with worry. 2. sought help from another dispatcher. "I'm running out of gas and I can't stop and get gas because they are on my tail," Phillips, 22, said, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recording of the call played Tuesday in San Fernando Superior Court. "Can you get to the police station?" the dispatcher asked. "I'm trying but I'm running out of gas." Moments later, Phillips, who had been driving at up to 100 mph, plowed through a red light at Roscoe and Reseda boulevards and slammed into a full-size truck. She died within minutes, and a firefighter on his way to work spent the next 3 1/2 weeks in a coma coma, in medicine coma, in medicine, deep state of unconsciousness from which a person cannot be aroused even by painful stimuli. The patient cannot speak and does not respond to command. . Lakaysha Redd, the 17-year-old ex-girlfriend Phillips told police she was fleeing, is charged with her murder and eight other felonies. She has pleaded not guilty. Her preliminary hearing, which began Tuesday and should be completed today, shed some light on the minutes before Phillips died -- and the months leading up to that day. Police said Lakaysha's vehicle was behind Phillips' and that she slowed down as she approached Reseda Boulevard and avoided the high-speed collision. Then she turned right and drove home, they said. Hours later, Lakaysha called Phillips' lover, Abony Broadway, and told her Phillips had been in "a serious accident" without elaborating, Broadway testified Tuesday. brad.greenberg(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3634 |
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