A driver involved in a 2023 fatal crash on Frazier Avenue was found guilty on nine charges, three of them reduced, after jury deliberations lasted almost five hours Monday.
The trial for Randy Vega, 45, began last week. He was arrested after a Thanksgiving weekend crash that killed a Florida mother and her 1-year-old son, permanently injured the child’s father and led to a redesign of one of Chattanooga’s busiest pedestrian corridors.
Around 5 p.m. Monday, jurors returned guilty verdicts for two counts of reckless homicide and one count of assault, which were reductions from the original two charges of vehicular homicide by intoxication and one charge of vehicular assault with intoxication.
Vega’s remaining guilty verdicts were for two counts each of driving under the influence and vehicular homicide by reckless conduct and one count each of reckless aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.
During closing arguments, prosecutor Sean Boers accused Vega of losing control of his minivan while attempting to cut off another driver, Dr. Patrick McGinty, during a lane change that Vega allegedly never had room for.