A person accused of inflicting a high-speed Aurora automobile crash that killed a 71-year-old girl was convicted of vehicular murder, the 18th Judicial District Lawyer’s Workplace stated Tuesday.
Taylor Marcus Douglas, 31, was discovered responsible of vehicular murder and reckless driving by an Arapahoe County jury on Thursday, court docket information present.
Vehicular murder is a felony and reckless driving is a site visitors offense.
The crash occurred round 3:30 p.m. on April 15, 2024, when Janis Camfield and her husband have been leaving a dialysis middle and turning onto South Chambers Street close to East Heart Avenue and have been t-boned by Douglas.
Witnesses instructed police Douglas, who was driving a black Nissan Altima, was weaving out and in of site visitors and rushing earlier than the crash. Crash information collected from his automobile confirmed he was touring at 98 mph seconds earlier than the crash and investigators estimated he was touring at 73 mph when he hit the Camfield’s SUV.
Camfield’s husband was additionally severely injured within the crash.
Douglas faces a most of six years in jail when he’s sentenced on Jan. 16. In an announcement, District Lawyer Amy Padden stated she helps “rising penalties for these offenses to make sure better accountability and justice.”
“Each sufferer and each grieving household deserves a justice system that treats vehicular murder instances with the gravity it warrants,” Padden stated. “My workplace continues to have productive conversations with legislators to pursue reforms that maintain offenders totally accountable for these preventable tragedies.”
Douglas was represented by the Workplace of the Colorado State Public Defender, which doesn’t touch upon prison instances.
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