The Heather Cook Case: A Notorious Hit-and-Run DUI Fatality

On December 27, 2014, Tom Palermo was riding his bicycle on Roland Avenue in Baltimore when he was struck fatally by a motorist. Later, we’d learn the driver was Heather Cook, an Episcopalian bishop.

The Death of Tom Palermo

Thomas (Tom) Palermo should be known as a software engineer who worked for Johns Hopkins Hospital who also made custom bike frames on the side. And as a husband and a father. Instead, he is remembered because he was killed in a hit-and-run crash on December 27, 2014. He was mourned…