Aimee Michael Guilty On All Counts In Deadly Easter Crash

ATLANTA — A Fulton County jury found 24-year-old Aimee Michael guilty on all counts Monday.

Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Regan was in the courtroom when the verdicts were read.

Michael was charged with starting a collision that killed five people on Easter Sunday 2009 and then fleeing the scene.

The jury began deliberating the fate of Michael on Wednesday afternoon.

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Prosecutors said Michael fled the scene after she lost control of the BMW she was driving and triggered the April 2009 chain-reaction wreck. She was arrested more than a week later after neighbors called the police.

Michael's defense attorneys conceded that she fled the scene of the accident, but said she shouldn't face vehicular homicide charges because she didn't cause the wreck. They said tire tracks show Michael was sideswiped by another car before the accident.

Robert and Delisia Carter, their newborn son, Ethan, and Delisia Carter's 9-year-old daughter, Kayla, died in the chain-reaction crash on Camp Creek Parkway, a few miles west of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Also killed was 6-year-old Morgan Johnson, whose mother, 43-year-old Tracie Johnson of Atlanta, was injured.

Michael was found guilty on five counts of vehicular homicide, one count of serious bodily injury, six counts of hit-and-run and misdemeanors including reckless driving, failure to maintain lane and tampering with evidence.

Michael will be sentenced at 9 a.m. on Thursday. She faces a maximum life sentence.

WSBTV