Man awaits sentencing in 3 vehicular homicides

Staff report

GIRARD

A 64-year-old Shiloh man is awaiting sentencing after pleading no contest to three counts of vehicular homicide for his role in a 2010 accident on Interstate 80 that left three people dead.

Eugene R. White entered the plea Wednesday in Girard Municipal Court. The vehicular-homicide charges each carry a possible penalty of six months in jail.

White was driving a truck and rear-ended a vehicle on I-80 in Hubbard on May 24, 2010.

The accident killed three siblings in the car, driver Shirley Gilmore, 66, of Warren, and her two passengers, David Westenfelder, 56, and Wendy Frost, 59, both of Surprise, Ariz.

Gilmore was taking her brother and sister to Pittsburgh International Airport after a party in Warren in celebration of the 50th wedding anniversary of Shirley and Larry Gilmore, according to Vindicator files.

White also was charged with three counts of vehicular manslaughter that alleged he caused the deaths while committing a minor misdemeanor. Those three charges of vehicular manslaughter were dismissed, according to online court records