How Low Can People Sink?

Apparently, pretty low:

A Florida football player was kicked off the team Friday after turning himself in on charges he used the gas credit card of a woman who was killed along with another player in a motorcycle accident.

Jamar Hornsby, a 21-year-old junior safety, learned Thursday that a judge had issued a warrant for his arrest on charges he used the dead woman’s gas card for six months, so he surrendered on charges of credit card theft and fraudulent use of a credit card, lawyer Huntley Johnson said.

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The credit card belonged to Ashley Slonina, a Florida junior. She was riding a motorcycle with another football player, redshirt freshman Michael Guilford, last October that hit a median at a high rate of speed, police said. The two died at the scene. They were not wearing helmets.

Hornsby started using the gas card the day after Slonina died. The card was used 33 times in Alachua County and another 37 times in Jacksonville, where Hornsby is from. The total amount was $3,000, said Alachua County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Stephen Maynard.

As someone who works in the criminal justice system, I’m not often surprised or shocked by an account of criminal activity, but this story shocks me. It takes a truly depraved individual to stoop so low as to use a dead person’s credit card, and all the more disturbing is the fact that Jamar Hornsby started using a dead woman’s credit card only a day after she had died.

Truly despicable.