Great-grandmother getting her mail was mowed down and killed in her own front yard by drunk neighbor who lives within walking distance of her: Police

A 77-year-old Florida woman was mowed down and killed while getting her mail, with police saying a drunk neighbor who lives within walking distance of the victim veered off the road and hit her “in the yard of her home.”

Vicki Noon, a retiree from Bradenton, was run over by Jordan Beard, 40, on Friday afternoon in what local cops say was a “hit-and-run crash.”

Noon was “in the yard of her home” in the 5600 block of 11th Avenue West when Beard “veered off the road and struck her,” according to a Bradenton Police Department press release. He faces charges of DUI manslaughter, leaving the scene of a crash involving death, and tampering with evidence…

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