The woman charged with crashing her vehicle and killing a UGA graduate student last fall was found guilty yesterday.
Whitney Baker Howard was found guilty on 11 counts in the Superior Court of Athens-Clarke County on Tuesday. On September 12, 2016, Howard crashed her vehicle into a group of cyclists. In that crash, she killed Ashley Block, a UGA graduate student in the Department of Anthropology and Integrated Conservation.
Those 11 counts are made up of two counts of homicide by vehicle in the first degree, 6 counts of serious injury by vehicle, one count of driving under the influence of drugs, one count of erratic lane change and one count of endangering the life of a child. Total, that’s eight felonies and three misdemeanors.
Howard was found not guilty on two counts. One of reckless driving and another of not exercising due care while driving.
Judge Eric Norris presides over the ACC Superior Court. He will schedule a sentencing date for Howard in the next few weeks.
Howard's guilty and non-guilty counts were accessed from the Athens-Clarke County Clerk of Court Records, which are publicly accessible.