A magistrate judge has denied bond for a woman who allegedly hit and killed a pedestrian in Cobb County, carjacked two drivers and crashed into three cars in Atlanta.
Kristie Renee Nesby, 43, of Fresno, Texas, appeared Thursday in Cobb County Magistrate Court. A “no bond” hearing has been scheduled for May 31 in Cobb Superior Court, a magistrate court spokeswoman said. Nesby will remain in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center until then.
She has been charged with murder, vehicular homicide, hit and run, aggravated assault (multiple counts), armed robbery, vehicle hijacking, reckless driving and failure to maintain lane, police in Marietta and Cobb said.
Nesby was caught after a bizarre series of events that began early Wednesday in Smyrna, continued on Cobb Parkway near Bells Ferry Road and ended in front of the Majestic Diner in Atlanta, authorities said.
She allegedly robbed a cleaners in Smyrna, then drove into a 71-year-old woman walking on a sidewalk on Cobb Parkway without stopping, Cobb police Officer Alicia Chilton said. The pedestrian later died at WellStar Kennestone Hospital. Her name has not been released.
“After striking the pedestrian, the suspect carjacked another motorist’s vehicle and fled the scene southbound on Cobb Parkway,” Marietta police spokesman Jared Rakestraw said. “A short distance down the road near Canton Road and I-75, the suspect committed an additional carjacking and fled that scene as well.”
Nesby made it to Atlanta, wrecked the car, got out of that vehicle and ran down Ponce de Leon Avenue with the gun, police said.
She tried to take other vehicles before Atlanta police took her down in front of the Majestic Diner, Chilton said.
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