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.<\/p>\n
Twenty-one-year-old Chandler Kania\u00a0has been found guilty of three counts of involuntary manslaughter and guilty of reckless driving.<\/p>\n
He had been facing three counts of second degree murder.\u00a0Kania already pleaded\u00a0guilty to several lesser charges, including three counts of felony death by motor vehicle and driving while impaired.<\/p>\n
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Malice, under North Carolina law, is the key difference between second-degree murder and manslaughter in fatal DWI crashes.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The crash killed three passengers in the other car – Darlene McGee, Felecia Harris King and King\u2019s granddaughter Jahnice Beard, 6. King\u2019s young daughter, Jahnia King, now 11, was seriously injured.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The jury is now moving on to the sentencing phase of the trial.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"