A woman who pleaded guilty last week to running over and killing a longtime Fort Worth police officer in a 2024 wrong-way crash has now been sentenced to life without parole in prison.
De Aujalae Evans admitted just hours into the first day of her trial to intoxication manslaughter in the death of Sgt. Billy Randolph.
“There have to be consequences to actions or nothing we do up here matters,” Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Lloyd Whelchel told the jury in closing arguments.
What led to the tragic Fort Worth crash
In August 2024, Randolph was standing outside of his vehicle investigating a crash involving a tractor-trailer when he was struck by Evans, who was driving the wrong way on I-35 South near Sycamore School Road…