A Dearborn man has been convicted in a crash that killed two recent Perrysburg and Maumee high school graduates, closing one chapter in a case that has shaken both communities.
Jurors found the Michigan semi-truck driver guilty of vehicular homicide on Wednesday, according to WTOL. The station reported that prosecutors told the jury the driver’s conduct caused the fatal crash and identified the victims as recent graduates of Perrysburg High School and Maumee High School.
Local impact and reaction
The loss has hit classmates, relatives and neighbors in both towns with particular force. Graduation season is supposed to be about caps, gowns and future plans, and instead it turned into a period of vigils, memorials and condolences, both in person and across social media.
Those tributes have underscored how many lives the two graduates touched in a short time and how abruptly those lives were cut short…