Deputy+cited+for+careless+driving+in+fatal+crash

Sarah Epperson Courtney Collazo Trevor Chavez Joey Blakney  An El Paso County sheriff’s deputy was ticketed Wednesday for killing an Air Force reservist two weeks ago. Rodney Fannin, 42, was issued a misdemeanor summons for careless driving resulting in death. The summons ends a lengthy investigation that focused on whether Fannin acted carelessly or recklessly in failing to stop. Speeding, talking on a cell phone while driving and driving drunk are considered reckless and can lead to a vehicular [|homicide]  charge, a felony. Capt. Vivian Elmo was turning left onto Highway 94 from Curtis Road Fannin’s brown Ford Explorer… sent the vehicles spinning. Elmo, an active-duty reservist with the 310th Space Wing at Schriever Air Force Base, died at the scene of the crash. Fannin suffered moderate injuries. Fannin was on probation for a previous careless driving conviction — one of two such convictions for the nine-year El Paso County sheriff’s deputy.He pleaded guilty to careless driving in 1996 and again in March, when he was sentenced to six months probation. Fannin, who worked in the El Paso County jail, “has not been performing the duties of a deputy,” according to a release by Sgt. Mike Schaller, sheriff’s spokesman.Schaller would not elaborate on Fannin’s job status, adding only that an internal investigation is under way. — The orgional piece that was written stated more about what Fannin didn’t do than more about what he did do. We changed the parts about how he just does the duties of a duputy, why the department took so long to charge him and that he was off – duty when the accident occurred. I left in the fact that she was a military officer, she died on scene and that Fannin came out with minium injuries.

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