Crime & Safety

Forsyth County Teenager Indicted for Fatal Wreck

Adam Robert Joseph Di Millo will face first degree vehicular homicide and other charges for the June 1, 2014 accident in Cumming.

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A 17-year-old Forsyth County man has been indicted by a Forsyth County grand jury on charges related to a June 1 drunk driving accident which killed a teenager from Dawsonville.

AccessNorthGa.com reports that Adam Robert Joseph Di Millo was indicted on three counts of first degree vehicular homicide, two counts of DUI, one count of reckless driving, and one count of alcohol possession by a minor.

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Investigators with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office say that shortly after leaving a party at 1 a.m. on June 1, Di Millo lost control of his Dodge Ram pickup truck carrying five teenagers on Kelly Mill Road at Rockingham Run. The vehicle hit a telephone pole, ejecting 17-year-old Paul Louis Castell Jr., a rising senior at North Forsyth High who died on scene as a result of his injuries. Di Millo and three other passengers suffered for non-life threatening injuries.

In the aftermath of the accident, Di Millo was charged with D.U.I., underage possession/consumption of alcohol, and 1st degree homicide by vehicle. Di Millo was re-arrested on June 9 on additional charges of reckless driving, driving too fast for conditions, failure to maintain lane, seatbelt violation and two counts of violation of Class D license restrictions.

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Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office investigators made a second arrest in the days after the accident, charging Jeremiah Luke Funke, who allegedly hosted the party, with possession of marijuana less than an ounce, possession / consumption of alcohol by a minor, and maintaining a disorderly house.

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