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Crime Blotter: Georgia football player Devin Willock, staff member Chandler LeCroy killed in car crash

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the industrial area bounding the north end of my neighborhood (near the atl airport) turns into a defacto drag strip on weekend nights (and sometimes others)
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This has always gone on even in the prehistoric days of my youth. There were multiple such 1/4 mile "strips" in the Bham area in the 60s, including segments of an unfinished interstate.
 
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What do you do when the chaperone, who is called because she is the responsible adult, is the one who is drunk out of her mind and drives 104 mph? Assuming she was called by the players or was she fraternizing with them? IDR.
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It seems like she was fratenizing with them. The only ones who can truly answer that don't seem to be talking or it hasn't came out yet. It could just be me, but I also think colleges need to look at the ages of the chaperones in these situations, it is one thing to have them as recruiting coordinators, but I think there needs to be a bigger age gap when it comes to having the responsibility in these situations. She was just out of college and having responsibility of people basically her age, that obviously influenced her decision making.
 
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BamaInBham said:
This has always gone on even in the prehistoric days of my youth. There were multiple such 1/4 mile "strips" in the Bham area in the 60s, including segments of an unfinished interstate.
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In the later 80’s there was the Oxmoor industrial area, as well as the end of I-459 when it went no further than Hwy 150
 
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Why does the type of car matter again? The wrecked vehicle was a 2.5 ton expedition. Not exactly street racing material.
 
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BamaInBham said:
What do you do when the chaperone, who is called because she is the responsible adult, is the one who is drunk out of her mind and drives 104 mph? Assuming she was called by the players or was she fraternizing with them? IDR.
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They all came out of the strip club together, per the pictures that were published. You haven't heard anything that would lead you to believe they were dating. Still want to hear what the other UGA employee that was in the car has to say.
 
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They had better, he has multiple interviews coming up for a multi million dollar job.
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Ray Lewis set the tone years ago in Atlanta…(forever changing Buckhead with the same swing.)
Athletes are MOSTLY above the law, and are certainly treated light-years better than the average Joe…Phil Mickelson, insider trading.
“Please just pay it back Phil.”
I unfortunately know a cat that was involved to a much lesser degree, but he got hammered w/fines and possibilities of losing licenses that could have cost him his livelihood. (Not condoning any actions or backing anyone here.)
To Phil it wasn’t even an afterthought…it haunted my buddy for a few years leading to trial.
Sorry…done…TLDR? I may not have either…😁
 
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Dave Willock said he and his wife had not been told about vehicles racing at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour after leaving a strip club until he read it in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Willock said neither the University of Georgia nor the Athens-Clarke County Police have shared any of the details about the alcohol-related crash that took the life of Devin Willock and UGA recruiting staffer Chandler LeCroy at approximately 2:45 a.m. on Jan. 15. They still haven’t.

“Excess speeding, and that’s all,” Willock said of what he had been told before police released a public statement this week. “I had no knowledge of nothing else. It was just a situation of wondering what happened. But, it just shocked me to know that this was drag racing, you know, and drunken driving. I was really shocked to hear that.”

Willock said he and his wife, Sharlene, have been disappointed with the lack of communication they encountered with university officials and Athens police since their 20-year-old son was laid to rest on Jan. 27.
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Heartbreaking for this family. The frustration is palpable.

A statement provided to the AJC by the Athens-Clarke County police read: “ACCPD has maintained an open line of communication with the parents of Devin Willock.” UGA officials did not respond for a request for comment. Will Fleenor, the Athens-Clarke County solicitor general, who is prosecuting Carter, did not respond to a message seeking comment.

Dave Willock said they hadn’t gotten any information about the crash from McClendon, who was Devin’s roommate.

“He was in the front seat of the car and he knows nothing?” Willock said incredulously about McClendon’s public statements that he “blacked out” and couldn’t remember anything. “It’s not fair. … No one is telling the truth. If it was Devin, Devin would tell the truth. That’s the way I raised him.”
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