OHIO Driver gets 80-year sentence in crash that killed 4 passengers

A loaded gun and drugs were found at the scene.
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A driver who sped away from police and crashed his car into a utility pole, killing four passengers, was sentenced on Monday to 80 years in prison.
Jerald Hundley, 25, of Chillicothe, had been convicted of vehicular homicide, failing to stop after an accident involving an injury, failing to comply with a police officer's request, drug trafficking and illegal possession of a gun.
"It's a tragedy. I loved all those people very much," Hundley said in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
Hundley's attorney asked Judge Patrick Dinkelacker to appoint a lawyer to represent Hundley on appeal.
Authorities said Hundley fled police in Warren County, just north of Cincinnati, on July 23 after being stopped for littering.
Minutes later, his car hit a utility pole, causing it to split in half, investigators said. Three people died at the scene and the fourth died less than three hours later at a hospital.
Gun and drugs
Officers said they found a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and 5 1/2 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms, which can be used as a hallucinogenic drug, at the crash scene.
Killed were Timothy Chaney, 22, of Chillicothe; Nicholas Lucke, 24, Stacy Williamson, 15, and her sister, Nickole Williamson, 23, all of suburban Cincinnati.
Authorities said that Hundley also had been wanted in Pike County for failing to appear in court on a charge of manufacturing methamphetamine.