In connection with traffic fatalities in Houston, two various Wiregrass vicinity drivers were reportedly handed down their respective sentencing on Friday March 12, 2010. 23-year-old Shanequa Gibson and 43-year-old Corey James Dunn killed Brittany Meink Hill and John Dillion, respectively while in the years 2008 and 2009.

Judge Larry Anderson of a Circuit Court at Houston County convicted a Dothan resident female driver Shanequa Gibson and sentenced her to a 4-year prison time on Friday morning on felony vehicular homicide charge. A jury had found Gibson guilty of above said felony count earlier this year while she was held by the Dothan police authorities in the month of December, 2008.

According to the details, a manslaughter charge imposed on Gibson following her trial earlier this year, suggested lesser vehicular homicide crime and David Atwell the Assistant District Attorney asked the court for five years sentencing for Gibson. This is the maximum allowed sentence for the felony crime and the same carried possible sentence of at least one to five years in prison.

However, Anderson revised the sentencing for Gibson by suspending the prison term and she was asked to serve at a Community Corrections Center at Houston County’s work release program for six months instead. The plea was taken by Eric Davis the representing Attorney for that in a similar unrelated death traffic death case, Ashford resident Corey James Dunn had received the similar sentence.

The accident that occurred in 2008 claimed the life of Hill when the vehicle driven by Gibson hit a supply pole at the Haisten Drive near the Bracewell Avenue intersection. Hill was Gibson’s co-passenger and when the car finally struck against a tree with full force; Hill died on the spot. Gibson was found with content of blood alcohol.

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