Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Clayton Deneal Wamsley, 20, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed by two years of probation, after entering a plea of nolo contendere to vehicular homicide for the death of Matthew Umanos in January 2025.
A Gainesville Police Department investigation found that at about 5:41 p.m. on January 2, 2025, Wamsley was driving his car northbound on NE 7th Street, ran the stop sign at NE 16th Avenue, and hit Umanos, who was crossing NE 7th Street in a marked crosswalk. Umanos was thrown about 124 feet before landing and striking a cement culvert; he was transported to UF Health Shands, where he died a short time later. Umanos’s dog was also hit and killed…