Paris, Tenn.–A Henry County man was sentenced to serve five years in prison after a guilty plea to a vehicular homicide which occurred September 2017. A Buchanan youth, Phillip Frazee, was killed in the wreck and six others injured.
Driver Jarod Christopher Ashby was 18 years old when the wreck occurred on Hwy. 140, near Old Paris-Murray Road, and he was originally indicted on 31 charges, including the vehicular homicide charge, DUI, and several counts of aggravated assault.
The local court in March of this year had granted the state’s request to exhume the body of the victim of the car crash to determine who was driving the car at the time of the crash. With the guilty plea, however, that motion is negated.
With the guilty plea, Ashby was sentenced to five years with the State Department of Correction. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault and was sentence to two years on each of those charges.
During the hearing before Henry County Circuit Court Judge Donald Parish, the judge ordered the sentences be served concurrently, with 180 days continuous confinement and the rest in community corrections. He also will lose his driving privilege for five years.
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