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Article: Crafton cop turns himself in after fatal hit-and-run two years ago
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- July 5, 2009
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As 24-year-old David Hall lay dead in the street, off-duty
Crafton police Officer Donnie L. Breeden stood nearby with a group
of friends who asked the gathering crowd if anyone had seen what
happened, according to a police affidavit released Saturday.
Confident that nobody but his buddies knew he had struck the
young man with his sports utility vehicle, Breeden told his friends:
"I'm a cop. I can't go to jail. If I go to jail, I will kill
myself. I'm getting out of here. No one knows I did this, so I am
getting out of here," the affidavit stated.
But his friends did know -- after leaving a bar in Green Tree
that night, July 20, 2007, he called one of them on his cell phone
and said he'd just ...