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Mother, 2 Daughters Killed Riding With Man Who Had Several Traffic Violations

Flowers and a teddy bear mark the scene of a crash Tuesday off Route 1 between Gatewood Drive and Patuxent Range Road in Jessup.
When a Laurel woman and her three daughters piled into Andrew Ray Sturgill's car one morning this week, they had known him only a few days. A drywall worker, he had a habit of bouncing from one relative's house to another, and he was new to the area.

Back in Indiana, a cousin said, Sturgill, 31, was known as a driver who would mess with the radio and pay attention to everything except the road. Court records show that in recent years he was convicted of several traffic violations, including speeding, in Virginia.

Relatives said he arrived in the Washington region two weeks ago to visit family in Baltimore and collect from a life insurance policy. That's how he met and befriended Stephanie Ann Dorsey, 24....

Yet another repeat car offender.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303604.html?hpid=sec-metro