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Ranger testifies in fatal boat accident trial
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DNR Ranger Mark Stephens is sworn in the trial of Jeffrey Hubbard of Atlanta, on trial on charges of homicide and four other counts after hitting two children with a personal watercraft on Lake Lanier in July 2012. Stephens, who witnessed the crash from several hundred yards away, testified he was waiting to be sure Hubbard was violating boating laws — to give him the benefit of the doubt — when the crash occurred. - photo by NAT GURLEY
For Mark Stephens, ranger with the Department of Natural Resources, July 6, 2012, marked the second death investigation on Lake Lanier involving children he had responded to in less than a month. “I’m tired of this,” he reflected to fellow officers, after he had interviewed the defendant in what would become a homicide case. “(An injured teen girl) got better and better as we went on. But that boy,” he said, his voice trailing off.