Chase suspect indicted for murder, vehicular homicide

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A Jonesboro woman has been

indicted by a Fayette County Grand Jury for murder and vehicular homicide

for causing the death of a Peachtree City man while fleeing Luthersville

Police.

Lorraine McCrary was also indicted

for fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer, speeding, two counts

of reckless conduct and violation of child safety restraint regulations.

McCrary led police on a chase

through Peachtree City that reached speeds of over 100 mph July 27. The

chase ended when her vehicle collided with a minivan driven by Chuck Vicha

just outside the Peachtree City limits on Ga. Highway 54 East.

Vicha was pronounced dead at

the scene.

Three children in McCrary's

car were injured, and McCrary herself was hospitalized for weeks after

the incident.

The grand jury also returned

indictments against the following people:

Daniel Joseph Venn of Peachtree

City for rape, two counts of aggravated sodomy and sexual battery;

Robert Lee Silva of Peachtree

City for aggravated child molestation and child molestation;

William Larry Shearin of Fayetteville

for two counts of child molestation;

David Stephen Mikell of Peachtree

City for owning, operating or conducting a chop shop and theft by receiving

stolen property (golf cart);

Samuel Howard Goodall of Union

City for kidnapping with bodily injury, two counts of aggravated assault

and aggravated sexual battery;

James Anthony Cook of Griffin

for impersonating a police officer;

Stephen Arthur Cramer of Sharpsburg

for child molestation.

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