BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Prosecutors say a 38-year-old Baton Rouge man has been indicted on vehicular homicide charges in a March 30 car crash that killed of two people on the Mississippi River bridge.
The Advocate reports (https://bit.ly/1ro2YOW ) an East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury on Thursday charged Dedrick Deon Matthews with two counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of first-degree vehicular negligent injuring.
If convicted, Matthews faces five to 30 years in prison on each vehicular homicide count.
Johnny Galmon, 26, and Kandace Cox, 19, both of Baton Rouge, died after the Honda they were riding in was struck by Matthews’ Dodge Charger shortly before 3 a.m., police have said. Two other women inside the Honda were treated at hospitals following the crash.
Both cars were headed west on the Interstate 10 bridge when the crash occurred.
Matthews told police he began the night as a sober, designated driver but later drank alcoholic beverages at a club and a casino before driving again, according to an affidavit of probable cause by Lt. Cory Reech, head of the Baton Rouge Police Department’s DWI Task Force.
Matthews and his passenger, who was not identified by police, left the casino and headed toward a club in Port Allen. Matthews was behind the wheel because he was the least intoxicated of the two, Reech said.
Matthews told investigators he was driving in the right lane of the bridge, speaking with his passenger when the crash happened.
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Information from: The Advocate, https://theadvocate.com
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