COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The jury has reached a verdict in the case of a driver who hit and killed a Cobb County high school student outside a holiday light display.
Channel 2 Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell has been following the case since it began.
Jerome Cox, 68, was charged in the death of 17-year-old Olivia Pugh.
On Friday, Cox was convicted of vehicular homicide and failure to exercise due care or caution for a pedestrian. Both charges are misdemeanors.
He was found not guilty on all other counts, including a DUI charge.
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Pugh and several friends were leaving a holiday light display on Ben King Road in Kennesaw last year when she was hit and killed.
A witness testified that he and his family crossed Ben King Road and heard what sounded like a crash behind him.
“The only thing I could think of was the girls that had been behind us,” said Charles Herbough. “Then, I heard the girls on the other side screaming, ‘She’s been hit! She’s been hit!’”
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The crash threw Pugh upon impact. Herbough described finding her shoes and socks before her. She died in the hospital two days later.
Defense attorneys argued that Pugh was not in the intersection and had darted into the road.
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