WRONG WAY DRIVER WILL SERVE 18 YEARS IN PRISON

A VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE CASE THAT COST THE LIVES OF A YOUNG UPSON COUNTY COUPLE WAS CLOSED WITH A GUILTY PLEA IN UPSON SUPERIOR COURT.

ACCORDING TO ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY BEN COKER, 21 YEAR OLD WILLIE WHITE OF HAMPTON, GA. WAS SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS, 18 TO SERVE IN PRISON BY JUDGE FLETCHER SAMS.

WHITE IS CHARGED WITH STRIKING A VECHILE OCCUPIED BY ALEXANDRA LAMONTHE AGE 26 AND HER HUSBAND TIMONTY LAMONTHE, AGE 29 ON U.S. 19 SOUTH, WHILE DUI.

PROSECUTOR COKER SAID WHITE WAS RUNNING FROM THOMASTON POLICE AND WAS DRIVING THE WRONG-WAY WHEN HE HIT THE COUPLE, THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS GAVE EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY AT THE PLEA BARGAIN HEARING—COKER ADDED.

WHITE WAS CHARGED WITH 22 COUNTS BUT SEVERAL WERE MERGED—THEY INCLUDED TWO COUNTS OF VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE, DUI, ATTEMPTING TO ELUDE AND TRAVELING THE WRONG WAY