A 22-year-old Kennesaw woman has been charged with the May roadside death of a volunteer Alpharetta firefighter.
Courtney McClellan was arrested Friday morning and bonded out two hours later. She faces a few misdemeanor charges, including second-degree vehicular homicide, Cobb County jail records show.
Such a vehicular homicide charge is defined by Georgia code as being an unintentional death.
A warrant says that about 4:30 a.m. on May 29, McClellan was driving 83 mph on I-75 near Delk Road, about 18 mph over the speed limit.
Credit: Cobb County Sheriff's Office
Credit: Cobb County Sheriff's Office
Her Chevrolet Cruze collided with an Impala, which caused a chain reaction that killed 52-year-old Mark Strow.
Strow, a volunteer firefighter, had pulled his Ford Explorer up behind the disabled Impala, activated the strobe lights of his Explorer and put on his reflective vest, police said.
"Then he said, 'Brother, don't worry about it; everything's under control,'" the driver of the Impala, 36-year-old Elvis James Jr., previously told Channel 2 Action News.
Strow told James, of Cartersville, to calm down. They were in the third lane from an emergency shoulder, police said. The collision occurred moment later.
"He had given countless hours to the support of our department and our community," the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety wrote in a Facebook post at the time. "Mark died coming to the aid of another, that was the kind of guy he was."
James was not injured. McClellan, who police say was not wearing her seatbelt, was taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital with minor injuries.
Jail records show McClellan bonded out for $10,120. Her next court date was not immediately available on the Cobb magistrate court’s website.
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