A jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a former UNC student accused of driving drunk and causing a deadly wrong-way crash on Interstate 85 last year.
Twenty-one-year-old Chandler Kania has been found guilty of three counts of involuntary manslaughter and guilty of reckless driving.
He had been facing three counts of second degree murder. Kania already pleaded guilty to several lesser charges, including three counts of felony death by motor vehicle and driving while impaired.
Malice, under North Carolina law, is the key difference between second-degree murder and manslaughter in fatal DWI crashes.
The Orange County jury had to decide whether a former UNC student acted with malice when he drove drunk the wrong way last year and crashed head-on into another car.
The crash killed three passengers in the other car – Darlene McGee, Felecia Harris King and King’s granddaughter Jahnice Beard, 6. King’s young daughter, Jahnia King, now 11, was seriously injured.
Kania already has pleaded guilty to several charges, including three counts of felony death by motor vehicle, felony causing serious injury and driving while impaired.
The jury is now moving on to the sentencing phase of the trial.
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