HIT AND RUN DRIVER IN DEADLY EASTER CRASH: GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS

State vs. Aimee Michael

Atlanta- It was an Easter Sunday crash that changed the lives of three families forever. Today, the young woman responsible for causing the deaths of three children, a man and his wife and seriously injuring a third woman then fleeing the scene and concealing the crime, was found guilty. Following four days of deliberations, jurors today convicted Aimee Michael, 24, of five counts of Vehicular Homicide, one count of Serious Injury by Vehicle, six counts of Hit and Run and one count each of tampering with evidence, reckless driving and failure to maintain a lane.

On April 12, 2009 Aimee Michael was speeding along Camp Creek Parkway in South Fulton County when her gold BMW struck a Mercedes traveling alongside her in the eastbound lanes. The impact of that crash forced the Mercedes into on-coming traffic where it collided head-on with a Volkswagon convertible. The fiery crash killed an entire family in the Mercedes: Robert Carter, his wife Delisia her nine-year-old daughter Kayla and the couple’s newborn two-month old son Ethan. Morgan Johnson, a six-year-old girl seated in the backseat of the Volkswagon was killed as well. Tracie Morgan, that child’s mother, survived the crash with multiple injuries.

After the accident, Aimee Michael fled the scene and hid her vehicle in the garage of her Walden Park home in South Fulton County. In the days that followed, Aimee Michael and her mother Sheila Michael conspired to have the damaged vehicle repaired to conceal evidence of the crash. Despite repeated public pleas for the hit and run driver to come forward, Aimee Michael failed to do so. She was arrested two weeks after the crash on April 23, 2009 after neighbors reported seeing the suspected gold BMW involved in the crash outside of the Michael’s family home.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams who presided over the case has scheduled sentencing for 9:00 a.m. Thursday morning, November 4, 2010. Sentencing is expected for Sheila Michael, the defendant’s mother, at that time as well. The elder Michael pled guilty at the start of her daughter’s trial October 18th to tampering with evidence and hindering the apprehension of a criminal for assisting her daughter in the deadly cover-up.

The case was prosecuted by Senior Assistant District Attorney Tanya Miller with assistance from Deputy District Attorney Sheila Ross and DA Investigator Steve Dimasi. Investigator Mike Stark of the Fulton County Police Department led the preliminary investigation.

Media Contact: Yvette Brown, 404-224-0560/404-392-8867, yvette.brown@fultoncountyga.gov