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Jurors hear opening statements in 2020 crash that killed Gainesville teen

Shannon Beauford sits in Hall County Superior Court Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, during the first day of his vehicular homicide trial. Beauford is charged with first degree vehicular homicide in the October 2020 wreck that killed 17-year-old Madison Gray, of Gainesville. - photo by Scott Rogers

01112023 BEAUFORD 1.jpg — Shannon Beauford sits in Hall County Superior Court Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, during the first day of his vehicular homicide trial. Beauford is charged with first degree vehicular homicide in the October 2020 wreck that killed 17-year-old Madison Gray, of Gainesville. - photo by Scott Rogers

With the driver’s side door unusable, Shannon Beauford crawled over his 17-year-old passenger to exit the Toyota Corolla he wrecked on White Sulphur Road, according to the prosecution.