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A Houston manWith five previous convictions for driving while impaired, he was sentenced to 35 year imprisonment for a 2018 drunken driving crash that resulted in the death of a father and his four children in Harris County.
In a Saturday newsrelease Harris County District AttorneyKim Ogg stated that Owen McNett, 50, was convicted by a jury of felony murder last month.
After hearing from McNett’s defense counsel, he decided to have his punishment determined and sentencing imposed by Lori Chambers Gray, State District Judge.
McNett was accused of felony murder for causing the death of another person while committing another crime. McNett was to be sentenced to life in prison by the DA.
Owen McNett (50) was sentenced to 35 year imprisonment for the drunk-driving accident that resulted in Wayne Childers’ death in 2018.
(Harris County District Attorney’s Office).
McNett was sentenced on Wednesday to 35 Years in Prison for the Feb. 9, 2018, 2018 incident Crash that killedWayne Childers, 54 years old. McNett was driving his Ram 1500 pickup truck and McNett drove through a stop signal at a Cypress three-way stop at 40 mph. Childers was T-boning on Childers’ side of his Buick Verano, killing him.
Ogg stated, “A totally innocent father of four lost her life because this man couldn’t quit drinking and driving.” “Repeat offenders driving drunk on the streets and highways is dangerous.
McNett was detained at the hospital, by a Harris County deputy. McNett was taken into custody by a Harris County deputy. blood alcohol levelThe legal limit for.08 was.31.
McNett had a history of driving drunk before the fatal crash. According to the Harris County DA’s Office, McNett even spent three periods in prison for it.
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Google Earth images show the entrance to Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
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McNett was sentenced to probation in 1992 for a DWI conviction in Kimble County. He was arrested in Tarrant County four years later for his second DWI offense and sentenced to 30 day in jail.
McNett was convicted of his third DWI in Johnson County in 2006. This led to a seven year sentence. He was later arrested in Houston for his fourth DWI charge and sentenced to 4 years in prison.
McLennan County DPS troopers arrested him in November 2012. He was sentenced to six-years in prison. This marked McNett’s fifth DWI conviction.
Two shot glasses and two handcuffs are next to the car keys.
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McNett was currently on parole after being convicted of fifth DWI offense.
Ogg stated that McNett was a repeat offenders who was already on parole for driving drunk when the death of his husband and father-of-four, McNett. “He was a one man crime wave on wheels, it was only a matter time until he killed somebody.”
