Judge considers whether evidence will be allowed in vehicular homicide trial


YOUNGSTOWN — A judge will decide if evidence collected against a Canfield woman charged with vehicular homicide will be permitted at trial.

Rachel Zorger, 25, of Calla Road, appeared for a suppression hearing today before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Zorger, through her attorney Mark Lavelle, is attempting to have all blood work drawn at St. Elizabeth Health Center and certain statements made to police inadmissible at trial.

Zorger is charged with two felony counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and one misdemeanor count of child endangering in the killing of her unborn child and a woman while reportedly driving drunk earlier this year.

Darla Schumacher, 55, of Detwiler Road, was killed just after 5 p.m. April 12 when the car she was driving collided with Zorger’s car. The accident took place on Detwiler just south of Western Reserve Road in Beaver Township.

Zorger, who was six months pregnant at the time, drove left of center, causing the accident, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

The patrol said she had a blood-alcohol level of 0.259. The legal limit in Ohio is 0.08.

For the complete story, read Friday's Vindicator and Vindy.com

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