The Brief A Johnson County jury sentenced 19-year-old Luke Garrett Resecker to 65 years in prison for a 2023 head-on crash.
The crash, which occurred near Cleburne, killed six members of a visiting Georgia family traveling in a minivan.
Nearly two years after a devastating head-on crash that killed six members of a visiting Georgia family, a Johnson County jury has sentenced 19-year-old Luke Garrett Resecker to 65 years in prison.
Those killed were 28-year-old Rushil Barri, 39-year-old Naveena Potabathula, 64-year-old Nageswararao Ponnada, 60-year-old Sitamahalakshmi Ponnada, 10-year-old Kruthik Potabathula and 9-year-old Nishidha Potabathula.
The lone survivor from the minivan, Lokesh Potabathula, lost his wife, two children, cousin and in-laws in the crash.
Potabathula’s family had recently moved from Plano to Alpharetta, Georgia, returning to North Texas to visit friends over the holidays.
The jury ultimately sentenced Resecker to 65 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. »