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Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein announced today that a 37-year-old Baltimore County man has been taken into custody after being indicted in a hit-and-run accident that injured two Johns Hopkins University students in early May.
Prosecutors say Thomas D. Green was impaired by alcohol at the time of the May 7 accident, which injured sophomore Benjamin Zucker and freshman Rachel Cohen. Officials said at the time that a Johns Hopkins security officer and two Baltimore police officers working with the school chased down the suspect, who was driving a white 2010 Chevrolet Impala.
Green was indicted on June 16 and taken into custody this morning, officials said. Court records show that while investigators deliberated the case, Green continued to drive recklessly, picking up a speeding ticket in Baltimore County on May 31.
Police have been criticized recently for being slow to charge in serious traffic accidents. The family of Hopkins student Nathan Krasnopoler grew impatient with the investigation into a crash near campus that left him comatose, and family and friends of two teen girls killed last week on Martin Luther King Boulevard have taken to the Police Department's Facebook page, furious that charges have not been filed against a man identified as the driver.
In the hit and run, Green faces charges of causing a life-threatening injury as a result of negligent driving while impaired by alcohol, failure to render aid to a victim after being the operator of a vehicle involved in an accident, driving in a reckless and negligent manner, and other charges. Green does not appear to have a prior criminal record, though he's picked up traffic charges in five separate incidents since July 2009, records show.
Hopkins spokeswoman Tracey Reeves said Zucker and Cohen were "able to complete the spring semester, and are expected to return to their studies in August."
"We are grateful for the hard work of the Baltimore City Police Department," Reeves said.
