Overview
- After a week of deliberations, a Johnson County jury issued the 65-year sentence for Luke Garrett Resecker, who is 19 now and was 17 at the time of the crash.
- Investigators said his Chevy Silverado crossed into oncoming traffic on December 26, 2023, on US 67 near Cleburne and struck a Honda Odyssey carrying a visiting family.
- Toxicology showed active THC in his bloodstream, and troopers reported finding THC wax, marijuana and a vape pen inside the truck.
- Six people in the minivan were killed, including two children, while sole survivor Lokesh Potabathula was left paralyzed and passenger Preston Glass suffered a severe traumatic brain injury.
- Resecker was charged with six counts of intoxication manslaughter, two counts of intoxication assault, and drug possession, and prosecutors called the crash a preventable tragedy.