{"id":1518416,"date":"2026-06-25T14:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1518416"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:17:55","slug":"truck-driver-sentenced-in-fatal-pileup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1518416","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver sentenced in fatal pileup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/fdb87f4f-b4b0-44a9-b692-004c28cbf74c_1920x1080-e1782415750758-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1518417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/fdb87f4f-b4b0-44a9-b692-004c28cbf74c_1920x1080-e1782415750758-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/fdb87f4f-b4b0-44a9-b692-004c28cbf74c_1920x1080-e1782415750758-678x678.jpg 678w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/fdb87f4f-b4b0-44a9-b692-004c28cbf74c_1920x1080-e1782415750758-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/fdb87f4f-b4b0-44a9-b692-004c28cbf74c_1920x1080-e1782415750758.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>KAUFMAN COUNTY &#8211; The truck driver who was charged with five fatalities in a 2025 crash on Interstate 20 in Kaufman County entered a guilty plea and was given a 20-year prison sentence. In court, Alexis Osmani Gonzalez-Companioni entered a plea, ending a case that garnered statewide attention after investigators claimed he fell asleep while operating an 18-wheeler and crashed into stopped traffic close to Terrell.<\/p>\n<p> Following the collision on June 28, 2025, a number of cars and commercial trucks were involved in a chain reaction pileup. Gonzalez-Companioni, a Florida resident, admitted to investigators that he had dozed off prior to the collision. A truck carrying three generations of the Fort Worth McKellar family was struck first. Grandfather Billy McKellar, parents Zabar and Shawn, and their 15-year-old son Kason were all instantly killed in the collision. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nicole Gregory, a Dallas resident, was the fifth person killed in a different Jeep Compass. Gonzalez-Companioni was subsequently charged with several felonies, including manslaughter and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, by a Kaufman County grand jury.  More than 700 miles from the scene of the collision, Gonzalez-Companioni was transporting a U.S. Postal Service load that started in Atlanta. He was employed by Hope Trans, a trucking company located in Orlando that has since closed. Gonzalez-Companioni&#8217;s guilty plea ends the criminal case, but the crash-related civil litigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAUFMAN COUNTY &#8211; The truck driver who was charged with five fatalities in a 2025 crash on Interstate 20 in Kaufman County entered a guilty plea and was given a 20-year prison sentence. In court, Alexis Osmani Gonzalez-Companioni entered a plea, ending a case that garnered statewide attention after investigators claimed he fell asleep while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1518416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Truck driver sentenced in fatal pileup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1518417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 17:02:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518457,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518416\/revisions\/1518457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}