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Millbrook students legally drunk at time of fatal crash

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    Molloy

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    Garrett Prince


RALEIGH A Millbrook High School student killed less than a month ago in a north Raleigh wreck was legally drunk, according to a toxicology report released Monday.

Elizabeth Molloy, 17, died on Jan. 7 when she left a party with her boyfriend, Garrett Prince, who was also found to be drunk, and whose car ran off the road and slammed into a tree. The cause of death was blunt-force trauma to the head, according to the Medical Examiner's Office.

Molloy had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.12, according to a toxicology report released Monday. Under North Carolina law, a blood-alcohol concentration above 0.08 is considered impaired.

Prince, the 16-year-old driver of the Jeep, had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.29, according to an investigation report from the Medical Examiner's Office in Chapel Hill. That is more than three times the limit that is considered impaired for drivers.

He has been charged with felony death by motor vehicle, driving while impaired, provisional DWI, careless and reckless driving, having an open container of liquor, speeding and possession of marijuana.

Four other people also have been charged in the case.

Authorities say Hannah R. Smith, 18, of 8617 Hawksmoor Drive, hosted an underage drinking party that Molloy and Prince attended; Anthony Du Juan Geter, 21, of 7101 Sandy Forks Road, Apt. 3A, bought two bottles of rum for a group of teens; and Samantha M. McKinney, 17, of Raleigh, and an unidentified 15-year-old helped buy the liquor.

A wreck report states that the Jeep was traveling 75 mph in a 30-mph zone when it crashed into a tree on Rainwater Road.

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