Bond denied for driver in fatal grocery parking lot crash

Bond was denied Friday morning for a Dothan woman who is jailed on a murder charge for a January 2007 accident outside a grocery store which left an Ozark man dead.

Tabitha Shae Farmer, 25, appeared before Circuit Judge Larry Anderson, who denied Farmer’s request to have a bond set.

She is charged with the death of Larry Downing, 60, outside Southern Family Markets on Jan. 14, 2007. Downing was killed after Farmer’s SUV struck him and pinned him against the exterior wall of the grocery store.

Dothan police charged Farmer with murder after she tested positive for marijuana following the accident. She had been involved in another accident in downtown Dothan minutes before going to Southern Family Markets. She was given a field sobriety test by Dothan police and released after she passed it.

Farmer had been released on bond, which was later revoked after she was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance. At the time of her arrest for Downing’s death, Farmer was out of jail on bond for a 2005 drug arrest.