After running over his 2-year-old great-niece, Greg Gibbs ignored the screams of horrified family members and calmly walked into his Connellsville home to work on his childrens' bicycles, four witnesses testified at a preliminary hearing Tuesday. "I had just come out to the porch after getting Megan a diaper and saw (Gibbs) flying around the corner and up the driveway. I yelled for him to stop, but I watched as he hit my baby," said the victim's mother, Jennifer Corteal. Corteal's daughter, Megan Shipley, died about 2 1/2 hours after the 7:05 p.m. accident on Aug. 4 in the emergency room of Highlands Hospital in Connellsville. Corteal told Bullskin Township District Judge Robert W. Breakiron that Gibbs, her uncle, who lived with her at 331 N. Pittsburgh St., showed no remorse after the accident. "He got out of the car and just walked into the house. He didn't even bother to call the police or an ambulance," said a visibly angry Corteal as she testified with her fists clenched and staring toward Gibbs. "As I was trying to do CPR to save my baby, he continued down to the basement to inflate tires on his own kids' bikes. It was like nothing happened," Corteal said. After more than an hour of testimony, Breakiron ordered Gibbs, 28, to stand trial for homicide by vehicle, reckless driving, careless driving and driving a vehicle at an unsafe speed. Connellsville police Sgt. Ronald Haggerty Jr. added another complaint yesterday against Gibbs for driving without insurance. Corteals' testimony was buttressed by three other witnesses, her mother, Vicki Corteal, who is Gibbs' sister; her brother, Jeffrey Corteal Jr.; and her mother's fiance, Jeff Wildey. Gibbs, who was shackled and wearing an orange Fayette County Prison jumpsuit, looked at his lap as witnesses recounted that evening's events under questioning from District Attorney Nancy Vernon. He did not comment to reporters as he was led by police in and out of Breakiron's office. "We had told him hundreds of times before to slow down when he was pulling in because kids play in the driveway. He just hit her and walked right into the house," Vicki Corteal said. "He (Gibbs) had no feelings at all afterward. He had always made the statement that the kids better stay off the driveway or they're going to get hit," Jeffrey Corteal Jr. said. He said he watched as Gibbs ran over the girl with his front and back tires, then parked his car. "He had his windows down. Everybody was yelling at him to stop," Corteal said. "He could hear." Gibbs' attorney, James Geibig, pleaded not guilty on behalf of his client. Under state sentencing guidelines, Gibbs could receive a maximum sentence of 2 1/2 to five years in prison, if convicted of all of the charges, Vernon said. Gibbs rejected a proposed plea bargain of 1 1/2 to five years on the homicide by vehicle, plus an additional three months imprisonment on the summary charges. Gibbs remains in prison on $50,000 bond. After the hearing, Jennifer Corteal complained to reporters that her uncle has shown no remorse over the death. The Corteals, Wildey and Gibbs and his two children were all living in the same house at the time, but Gibbs was in the process of moving. "He's not even sorry for it. If I would have hit and killed a child, I couldn't live with myself," she said. "I want him to pay for what he did," Corteal added.

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