Woman Charged In Friend’s Dragging Death
A woman has been indicted on charges she killed her boyfriend by dragging him 200 feet underneath a pickup.
Rebecca Raye Johnson of Salem was arraigned Wednesday in Marion County Circuit Court on charges of criminally negligent homicide and drunken driving.
Mark Shannon Luke, 41, died shortly after he was dragged April 16 outside his home in a rural subdivision south of Salem.
The two apparently had been arguing, deputy district attorney Walt Beglau said. Somehow, Luke got caught beneath the truck.
The indictment said Johnson was under the influence of alcohol and methamphetamine at the time of the incident.