Woman pleads not guilty for car windshield death

A TEXAS woman pleaded not guilty yesterday to murdering a homeless man by striking him with her car on her way home and leaving him to die lodged in the windshield after parking in her garage.

A former nurse, Chante Jawan Mallard, 27, faces life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder.

She pleaded guilty to a lesser charge yesterday before she went on trial on the murder charge. She pleaded guilty to a charge of evidence tampering before attorneys began their opening statements on the murder charge.