A La Porte man with four prior drunken driving convictions who was paroled from prison was charged Thursday with criminally negligent homicide for a head-on crash that killed another motorist on Genoa Red Bluff Road.
Rodney Craig Price, 47, is being prosecuted as a habitual offender because of his prior convictions and faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of the charge, said Harris County assistant district attorney Ryan Patrick.
A criminal complaint accuses Price, a crane operator, of driving on the wrong side of the two-lane road when the crash occurred Feb. 11, killing Troy Augst, 30, of the Sagemont area of southeast Houston.
Two witnesses told Houston police that Price was trying to pass other vehicles when he veered into the oncoming lane of traffic before the collision, the complaint shows.
Price remains at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center under police guard and has been ordered held without bond once the hospital releases him. He is in good condition with broken ribs and a fractured ankle, police said. He declined to comment when reached in his hospital room.
The victim’s mother expressed outrage that Price, who has done three stints in prison, had been paroled for a second time in 2007.
“If he had been in jail, my son would still be alive today,” Sharon Augst said. “Who makes the decision that this man can be released and get out and kill my son?”
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