Commerce,TX : No prison time for driver in wreck that killed three teenagers on November, Thursday 2nd 2017

A four-year driving suspension and three years of community corrections — including 80 days in the Vermillion County Jail — are part of the sentence for a former Cayuga football star convicted in a 2015 auto crash that killed three of his friends.

Ethan Lee, 20, pleaded guilty Thursday to three Level 5 felony counts of criminal recklessness during aggressive driving that resulted in the deaths of three people. He received a five-year sentence for each of the three counts, to be served concurrently.


Lee was an 18-year-old senior at North Vermillion High School when on Jan. 2, 2015, he drove a speeding Ford F-150 pickup truck that crashed into the Colonial Brick Corp. building in Cayuga. He was injured but survived the crash.

Killed in the crash were Braeden Hollowell 18, of Cayuga, and sisters Annie Clark, 18, and Caroline Clark, 16, both of Muncie.

Caroline and Annie Clark were the girlfriends of Hollowell and Lee, and were high school students in Delaware County. They were visiting Cayuga on the day of the crash.

The mother of the Clark sisters, Jill Clark, and the mother of Hollowell, Jennifer Brown, have been friends since college.

Lee and Hollowell were classmates and friends who played football together on the 2014 Class A state championship team at North Vermillion High School.

In court, Judge Bruce Stengle heard that Lee was known on multiple occasions to speed over a hump on County Road 400 North to become airborne as a thrill.

On the day of the crash, the truck went airborne for several yards, struck an embankment and crashed through a wall at Colonial Brick Corp, injuring a person inside the building.

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No prison time for driver in wreck that killed three teenagers