Ross Woman's Trial Begins In Attorney's Hit-And-Run Death

PITTSBURGH, PA - A jury will have to decide whether a Ross woman know she struck someone in a fatal hit-and-run incident or believed she struck a deer. Melinda Gregor, 30, went on trial Wednesday on charges related to the December 2017 death of Michael Menner, 50, a Shaler attorney.

Menner was struck on Babcock Boulevard near Shenanigans Bar and Grill as he was going to
pick up his son, an employee at the Philadelphia Pretzel Factory. Gregor had just picked up a pizza with her daughter from Monte Cellos on Babcock.

Prosecutor Ryan Kiray contended that Menner had to have known she struck a person that night, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. He also noted that when police traced down Gregor, they found a damage portion of the windshield had been cut away.

Defense attorney Phil DiLucente said in opening remarks that Gregor pulled over to the side of the road and called her boyfriend immediately after the accident to tel him she didn't see anything. The boyfriend told her she should come home so she did, the Post-Gazette reported.

Gregor is charged with accidents involving death or personal injury, child endangerment and driving without a license.