Texas lawmakers call for tougher DWI laws after crash involving Fort Worth family

North Texas lawmakers are calling for stiffer penalties for intoxicated drivers after three members of a Fort Worth family were killed in a November 2023 crash.

Lauren and Zach Muckleroy, 44, and their two children — 12-year-old Judson and nine-year-old Lindsay — were on their way to a family member’s house for Thanksgiving when Marine 1st. Lt. Connor McKim, driving north, veered into the southbound lanes of U.S. 281 in Blanco County.

“They never arrived,” Rep. Charlie Geren, a Fort Worth Republican who is carrying the Senate bill in the Texas House, told a panel of lawmakers on May 8…

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