Thursday, October 28, 2010
Letcher County Man Sentenced
KENTUCKY...
Charles Gross of Whitesburg, in Letcher County, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Police say Gross was DUI while driving on Ky. 931 when his vehicle dropped off the road and overturned in a ditch in November 2008, sending his pregnant passenger, 28 year old Amanda F. Smith, to Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital, where she and her fetus were pronounced dead. Police arrested Gross and charged him with murder, fetal homicide, aggravated driving under the influence and drug possession.