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The driver involved in a January 2024 crash that killed University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student Molly Rotunda has pleaded guilty.
WRAL News has reported extensively on the deadly single-car crash on Jan. 21, 2024, and the underage drinking that authorities say led up to it. The investigation into the surrounding incidents resulted in charges against 10 people, including UNC students, UNC football players and two North Carolina Central University students. Most of those were resolved earlier this year.
WRAL News previously reported that search warrants explained a group of friends had been drinking at a football player’s birthday party at a bar on Franklin Street, and that sources told us, after leaving the bar, two of the friends’ cars were racing back to a Chapel Hill apartment complex.
Nine of the 10 people charged faced misdemeanor charges only, primarily related to underage drinking or consumption of alcohol.
The driver of the car in which Rotunda was riding, Flemeeja Brewer, was the only defendant facing felony charges, including involuntary manslaughter. Her case was resolved on Thursday, court records show.
Brewer pleaded guilty to felony death by vehicle, driving while impaired and speeding 124 mph in a 45 mph zone. She faced a maximum of 20 years in prison. A judge sentenced her to a minimum of just over 3 years in prison and a maximum of nearly 5 years.
Brewer’s driver’s license is permanently revoked and the court recommends she get substance abuse disorder treatment, as well as mental health counseling.
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