Victim's family gets $1M in hit-run DWI crash
Photo credit: SCPD | Centerport resident Douglas Davis pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter, aggravated driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident. He is now serving three to ten years in prison. (Jan. 24, 2009)
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The family of a 25-year-old Valley Stream woman killed in a hit-and-run drunken driving crash in 2009 will get $1 million in a civil settlement, attorneys in the case said Wednesday.
Melissa Scherr was lost and driving slowly on Route 110 in Melville three years ago when Douglas Davis, 44, of Centerport, crashed into her car and fled the scene, prosecutors said at the time.
Davis pleaded...
