Overview
- Five people have been officially identified among the fatalities of the June 28 crash near Terrell, including four members of the McKellar family and 49-year-old Nicole Gregory of Dallas.
- DPS investigators determined that the driver, 27-year-old Alexis Osmani Gonzalez-Companioni, fell asleep at the wheel and collided with stopped traffic at high speed.
- Gonzalez-Companioni remains in custody facing five counts of manslaughter and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
- Twenty-year-old Evan McKellar is the sole survivor of the McKellar family and remains in critical condition at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
- Authorities and family attorneys are examining the semi-truck’s electronic control modules and reviewing Hope Trans LLC’s history of hours-of-service violations.