A nineteen-year-old Pennsylvania man, Benjamin D. Klinger, has been charged with homicide in the death of his 17-year-old girlfriend on Friday in Pennsylvania.
According to reports, Klinger intentionally crashed into a guardrail doing about 100 miles an hour on December 4th on the Interstate near Manheim. After which, he suffocated his girlfriend who was injured in the crash as they waited fro EMS to arrive.
A truckdriver who came upon the crash that occurred around 2 am, said that he heard the woman screaming. He was informed by the 911 operators not to move the victims of the crash. The truck driver heard Heller hollaring repeatedly, “Get off of me, get off of me,” according to the police.
When police arrived a short time later, they found Klinger sitting on his girlfriend, Sammi Heller’s head and torso. Police said that as he sat on the woman’s head as she was facedown outside the vehicle, Klingert would close his eyes for a moment,moan and reopen his eyes. But, the investigation and medical records of the accident ruled out Klinger being unconscious during the aftermath of the accident and said that Klinger was intentionally suffocating the woman.
After the investigation, police said in a statement that Klinger, after the accident, exited the undamaged drivers side door and went to the other side of the vehicle and sat on the badly injured Heller.
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Heller had confided in one of her friends prior to the accident, saying that Klinger had regularly tried to scare Heller in the vehicle and had said on accasion that he was going to kill the both of them in a crash. According to police in that state, another person came forward and told police that Klinger would push Heller into walls and had once pushed her down a flight of stairs. Klinger is also the defendent in another case where he had run over Heller’s foot with a vehicle in May, and for sending out explicit pictures of Heller to a Minor.
Besides Aggravated Assault and driving violations, Klinger is being charged with drug offenses, Maijuana, cash, a scale, pills and a black air pistol were found in the vehicle.