May 9, 2008
Columbia Cty., GA--

The second of two women involved in a deadly 2006 crash in Columbia County will be in prison for the rest of her life.

A jury found Denise "Nebula" McNeely of Augusta guilty of several charges, including murder, feticide and running from police.

McNeely is a career crimiinal who's been in Georgia prisons many times since 1986. She was the passenger in a car that crashed into a family at Washington Road and Bobby Jones.

Three people in the other car, including an unborn child, were killed.

Earlier, the driver, Tiara Smith, was found guilty of many of the same charges. She's serving life without parole also.

The crash is also the subject of a lawsuit against the Columbia County Sheriff's office in a dispute over whether officers were actually chasing the women when they ran a red light and hit the family.

The women were wanted for shoplifting from a store. The civil lawsuit has not been tried yet.