FOX 17 News investigates: Convicted drunk driver out on bail accused of killing mother
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — A FOX 17 News investigation leads the Nashville District Attorney’s Office to hold an emergency meeting and change its policies after we brought a case to light that slipped through the cracks.
Prosecutors tell FOX 17 News a convicted drunk driver out on bail, and accused of killing a mother of four, should’ve been sent back to jail instead of being allowed to get behind the wheel again.
Dylan Grady is accused of causing a deadly crash in Clarksville in March 2021. Police say he was driving the wrong way on Ashland City Road when he caused a five car pile-up.
Authorities found an open beer in his car at the time of the crash. Dylan Grady was out on bail for a DUI charge in Nashville just six months earlier.
Grady has plead ‘not guilty’ to vehicular homicide charges in the deadly crash that killed Shade Lazu. He is due back in court Nov. 17 in Montgomery County.
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