DOUGHERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WALB) – A man has been sentenced for the deaths of a father and son in a 2019 car crash out of Dougherty County.

Now Ryan Peter Jewell, 23, of Alabama has been sentenced to serve 6 months in the Dougherty County Jail followed by 30 years on probation.

On March 26, 2019, Kalvin “Dale” Hubbard, 54, and Wesley Nathaniel Hubbard, 14, were struck in their vehicle on Nelms Road by a vehicle driven by Jewell.

Jewell, who was 18 years old at the time, is accused of texting and driving distracted, running through a stop sign at the intersection and hitting the truck Kalvin and Wesley were in.

Defense attorneys are asking the judge to consider a first offender status.

On March 5 2024, a Dougherty County jury found Jewell guilty on charges including, two counts of first-degree vehicular homicide.

District Attorney Greg Edwards said, “In 2019, Jewell was speeding and texting while driving his car when he hit a truck with the Hubbard family of four inside. Wesley and Kalvin “Dale” Hubbard were killed as a result of the crash.”

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