ALPHARETTA, GA — Nearly two years after a deadly crash involving an Alpharetta family in Texas, a teenager is sentenced in the case.
Prosecutors call it a sobering reminder of the irreversible consequences of impaired and reckless driving.
Toxicology tests show then 17-year-old Luke Resecker had THC in his system when he veered into the opposite lane, striking a Honda minivan carrying members of a family along with their grandparents and a driver, who were returning home from a wildlife center the day after Christmas.
The six victims ranged in age from 9 to 64.
Only the father in the minivan survived, but he was left paralyzed from the waist down.
One of Resecker’s passengers also suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Resecker, who is now 19, will serve 65 years in prison.