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Kaufman County Grand Jury Indicts Truck Driver and Hope Trans Official Over I-20 Crash

The driver faces five counts of manslaughter, aggravated assault charges after admitting he fell asleep at the wheel, with prosecutors also filing a forgery charge against a Hope Trans official over the truck’s falsified registration.

Overview

  • Alexis Osmani Gonzalez-Companioni, 27, was charged with five manslaughter counts, four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
  • Prosecutors said he told investigators that he fell asleep at the wheel, failing to brake before slamming into slowed traffic in a construction zone on I-20 near Terrell on June 28.
  • A Hope Trans LLC official was indicted on a felony forgery charge over a falsified cab card registration for the mail truck.
  • The crash killed five people, including four members of the McKellar family along with a Dallas resident.
  • Gonzalez-Companioni remains jailed in Kaufman County on a $2.25 million bond, with FMCSA, NTSB probes into Hope Trans safety practices, crash mechanics ongoing.