Woman knocked unconscious by flying deer

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27-year-old Krystine Rivera was out for a run when she was knocked cold by a deer.

She might run like a deer, but she's no match for one.

A Virginia woman was on the final leg of a 7-mile-run near her home in Ashburn when an airborne deer reportedly knocked her unconscious Thursday about 6 p.m.

Krystine Rivera, 27, was a sitting duck when an SUV struck the buck and, in a stroke of bad luck, sent him flying toward the young athlete beside Claiborne Parkway. She remembers running one moment and coming to in an ambulance the next, the Washington Post reported.

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The collision with the SUV killed the deer, and the deer struck Krystine Rivera, 27, who is lucky to have survived.

"I was running, then I was on the ground and then was listening to the paramedic. I'm surprised I made it out alive," Rivera said to the paper.

The massive mammal cut the 5-foot-tall athlete's run short at five miles, slashed her scalp, bruised her right knee and gave her a concussion.

Rivera, an administrative analyst, started running roughly five years ago, participates in marathons and leads runs for a local fitness club.

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27-year-old Krystine Rivera is amazed she survived the hit from a massive flying deer.

She thought a run after a stressful day at work might cheer her up.

While Rivera was on the ground, a passerby called 911 and used Rivera's cellphone to contact her family and boyfriend, according to the Washington Post.

Rivera and the 71-year-old driver were both treated at Inova Loudoun Hospital and released, the sheriff's office said.

The deer died on the spot.

She is no stranger to that route and runs it regularly. She intends to run it again.

Newlyweds Elytte And Miranda Barbour Killed A Man For Fun, Pennsylvania Police Say

SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) — Newlyweds, just three weeks removed from their wedding day, lured a Pennsylvania man to his death with a Craigslist ad because they wanted to kill someone together, police said.

Elytte Barbour told officers before his arrest Friday night that he and his wife, Miranda, had planned to kill before, but their plans never worked out until last month when Troy LaFerrara responded to an online posting that promised companionship in return for money.

Elytte Barbour, 22, and Miranda Barbour, 18, both face criminal homicide charges in LaFerrara's death. 

His body was found Nov. 12, 2013, in an alley in Sunbury, a small city about 65 miles East of State College, PA. The couple recently moved to nearby Selinsgrove from North Carolina.

According to Sunbury police, Elytte Barbour told investigators he hid in the backseat of the couple's SUV as his wife picked up LaFerrara at a mall on Nov. 11. He told police that, on his wife's signal, he wrapped a cord around LaFerrara's neck, restraining him while Miranda Barbour stabbed him.

Miranda Barbour, 18, told police in Pennsylvania that she lured Troy LaFerrara, 42, to this parking lot at the Susquehanna Valley Mall before their fatal encounter.

The 42-year-old Port Trevorton man was stabbed 20 times, police said.

Miranda Barbour was charged Wednesday. She initially denied knowing LaFerrara, but her story evolved as investigators gathered evidence, including the discovery that the last call received by the victim's cellphone was made from her number, according to a police affidavit.

The affidavit said Miranda Barbour acknowledged meeting the victim in Selinsgrove then driving with him to Sunbury, where they parked. She said LaFerrara groped her and she took a knife from between the front seats and stabbed him after he put his hand around her throat, according to the affidavit.

Police said Miranda Barbour had told them she purchased cleaning supplies at a department store after stabbing LaFerrara, then picked up her husband and took him to a strip club for his birthday. On Friday, police said Elytte Barbour told them it was he that had purchased the cleaning products, an account investigators said was backed up by surveillance footage.

Following his wife's arrest, Elytte Barbour told The Daily Item of Sunbury his wife, whom he married on Oct. 22, regularly hired herself out as a "companion" to men she met on various websites, a business venture he said he supported because it did not involve sexual contact.

Barbour said his wife made anywhere from $50 to $850 for meeting with men for such activities as having dinner or walking around a mall. The ads she placed on websites including Craigslist all said upfront that sex was not part of the deal, he said.

"She is not a prostitute," he said. "What she does is meet men who have broken marriages or have no one in their lives and she meets with them and has delightful conversation."

Elytte Barbour did not have an attorney at his arraignment Friday night. A phone message left for his wife's public defender early Saturday was not immediately returned.

Sunbury police Chief Steve Mazzeo told The Daily Item that investigators will also be looking into the death of a man with whom Miranda Barbour had a 1-year-old child. He would not elaborate.