Prosecutors: UNC student charged in triple-fatal I-85 crash tested positive for marijuana

Thursday, August 6, 2015
ORANGE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- Orange County prosecutors alleged Thursday that Chandler Kania tested positive for marijuana the night he drove the wrong way down I-85, killing three people.

On July 31, prosecutors also revealed that tests showed Kania's blood alcohol content was twice the legal limit that night.
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Kania is charged with three counts of second-degree murder, three counts of felony death by a motor vehicle, and one count of felony serious injury by a motor vehicle in the deaths of 46-year-old Darlene McGee of Charlotte, her 49-year-old friend Felecia Harris of Charlotte, and Harris' 6-year-old granddaughter Jahnice Beard of Brooklyn, New York.

Darlene McGee, Felecia Harris and Jahnice Beard

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Kania was released from jail after his family posted a $1 million bond. His next court date is Aug. 10.

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