Police: Tampa man critically injures two in DUI crash

Monday, April 20, 2009

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Alian Marshall faces two felony and a misdemeanor charge.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY (Bay News 9) -- A Tampa man faces several charges following a early Saturday morning crash that severely injured two people.

Alian Dondre Marshall, 32, of Tampa, is charged with DUI with serious bodily injury and leaving the scene of a crash with injury. Both are felonies.

Marshall was also charged with the misdemeanor of having no valid driver's license.

Tampa police said two women, Vilma M. Marroquin-Marroquin, 35, and Miriam Pinto, 48, both of Tampa, were traveling westbound on Spruce St. in a 1994 Hyundai when their vehicle broke down near the entrance to Tampa International Airport.

Police said Marshall was also westbound on Spruce Street in an 1989 Cadillac and driving at a high rate of speed.

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His vehicle hit the rear of the Hyundai, which pushed the Hyundai forward into the two women, who were looking under the car's hood.

As Marshall left his vehicle and fled, with a school security officer who had witnessed the crash following on foot, he was hit by another vehicle on Spruce Street. He was not seriously injured.

Marroquin-Marroquin had to have one of her legs amputated below the knee and Pinto suffered severe facial injuries. Both are expected to survive.

Marshall was released on $4,250 bail.

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