Sharrow is currently housed at a state facility in Augusta, Maine, West said, where she receives medication and treatment for bipolar disorder and to avoid another occurrence of the state of psychosis in which she existed when she killed Parkhurst.
What’s the story of the hero of Goodall Park?
ESPN’s documentary ‘A Hero of Goodall Park’ explores fatal hit and run in Sanford and another in New York. Tom Junod’s documentary investigates the hit and run that killed Douglas Parkhurst in 2018 and the hit and run in 1968 where Parkhurst killed a 4-year-old girl.
Who is Douglas Parkhurst?
Parkhurst was a Vietnam veteran, and Emmons often drove him to see his doctors at the VA Hospital in Augusta. Recently, Parkhurst told him he had cancer again. He’d beaten it twice before, but this time, he said, the tumor was where the doctors couldn’t get at it. This time it was lodged furtively behind his heart.
What did Parkhurst do?
Douglas Parkhurst, 68, was killed as 51-year-old Carol Sharrow allegedly drove her sedan across the baseball field at Goodall Park in Sanford. Parkhurst, a New York native and Vietnam veteran, pushed several youngsters out of the path of the car and shut a gate to keep the driver from getting away when he was hit.
