Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Husband Indicted In New Bride's Death

Ryan Patrick Quinton of Jasper has been indicted on three counts of homicide by vehicle in the death of his new wife, Kali Shay Quinton, in December.

The man who has been charged with vehicular homicide in the death of his new bride on their wedding night has been indicted for the offense.
 
Ryan Patrick Quinton, 28, was indicted last week by a Cherokee County grand jury on three counts of homicide by vehicle in the first degree charges. 

Quinton, who lives in Jasper, was originally charged by the Georgia State Patrol with laying drags, DUI, weaving over roadway, reckless driving and vehicular homicide in the single-vehicle crash that took the of his bride, Kali Dobson Quinton.

"We charged him with vehicular homicide in three alternative ways — DUI per se, DUI less safe and reckless driving," said Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit District Attorney Shannon Wallace. "If he is convicted of all three, he can only be sentenced on one count." 

According to the indictment, Quinton allegedly "intentionally and unnecessarily caused the vehicle he was driving to move in a zig-zag course," forcing the vehicle to venture into the wrong lane.

The vehicle then traveled down an embankment, overturned and Kail Dobson was ejected from the vehicle. 

The Quintons were leaving The Wheeler House where they'd just celebrated their wedding when the husband told authorities he tried to avoid hitting a dog in the roadway along Highway 5 in Ball Ground when he lost control of the vehicle, according to the Georgia State Patrol. 

The car, a 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, traveled off the road, overturned and ejected Quinton's wife before it came to rest with the woman trapped under the vehicle.

She died at the scene of the accident. 

Last month, Quinton was arrested in Pickens County on driving under the influence, failure to stop at a stop sign and failure to drive within a single lane charges. 

That arrested prompted the Cherokee Sheriff's Office to revoke his bond and arrest Quinton on a bench warrant. 

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