Judge Sets Bond At $4M For Driver In Fatal Crash

Howard Pasour, who is charged with second-degree murder in the crash that killed a 17-year-old girl, hung his head as he stood before a judge on Tuesday.

Judge John Greenlee doubled Pasour’s bond, setting it at $4 million.

“Mr. Pasour would be a danger to the community,” Greenlee said.

Pasour is also charged with DWI in the crash, which happened on Sunday night on Dallas-Cherry Highway. Laura Fortenberry was killed after Pasour hit the car she was a passenger in head-on, police said.

Michelle Armstrong, Fortenberry’s mother, was in court on Tuesday.

“She is not here to stand the trial so I am here to do it for her,” she said.

Armstrong said she wanted to sit close to Pasour.

“I stared him down,” she said. “I wanted him to look at me. I want him to see the pain in my face.”

The DWI charge is Pasour’s fourth. He was convicted of the previous three DWI charges and had his license revoked after the most recent one, in May 2008. He was charged with driving without a license in April.

“My daughter had to die for this man to get off the street,” Armstrong said. “If that's what it takes, she didn't die in vain.”

She said she wants the law changed to keep convicted drunken drivers in jail.

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