Girl in Coma Gets Jaywalking Ticket

Getting hit by a car apparently isn't punishment enough for jaywalking in Las Vegas. After 13-year-old Takara Davis was struck by a car while walking home from school earlier this week, police handed her mother a jaywalking citation as her daughter was being rushed to emergency surgery. The 8th-grader remains in a medically-induced coma.

"He said, 'Takara was jaywalking. She has got to go to court on March 6th,'" her mother told 8 News. "If she was jaywalking, then she was jaywalking. But maybe you give it to me at a later time. Don't give it to me when they are rushing her into the operating room." A police spokesman said officers "conduct themselves in a professional and compassionate way" and "wouldn't do anything deliberately insensitive." (More Las Vegas stories.)