Suspect banned from driving 9 times

Man, 24, tells police he hit woman and dog in Harrison Twp., then fled.

Jimmie Picklesimer

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By Doug Page, Staff Writer Updated 1:47 AM Friday, August 6, 2010

DAYTON — A 24-year-old Riverside man with nine license suspensions told police he had downed six beers prior to an early Sunday hit-and-run that killed a woman and her dog in Harrison Twp.

Jimmie Picklesimer was booked into the Montgomery County Jail, though he was released Monday night, Aug. 2. Greg Flannagan, spokesman for the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office, said the case was sent back to the sheriff’s office for further investigation.

Rebecca K. Thompson, the mother of three sons, was pronounced dead at the scene on Payne Avenue just south of the Division Avenue intersection at 1:27 a.m. She was 42.

Picklesimer called the Regional Dispatch Center shortly after the collision, saying his 1992 Chevrolet S-10 pickup was carjacked by an armed black man two blocks north of the crime scene. Picklesimer later told county deputies his assailant took his truck keys. Inconsistencies in his story and the discovery of the truck keys in his pocket drew the deputies’ attention. Picklesimer eventually admitted he hit Thompson and the dog. He said he fled the scene, fearing deputies would think he was intoxicated.

According to the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Picklesimer’s license has been suspended nine times since 2002; the last suspension ending eight months before the collision.

“What I’m angry about is why he was still driving,” said Mary King, Thompson’s mother.

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