Authorities have arrested and charged a Cleveland man in connection with a wreck that killed the wife of a former Habersham County Commissioner.
State troopers say Rylee Higgins was behind the wheel of a Ford F-150 that struck Sandra Mulkey’s car head-on. The crash occurred on January 31, 2022, on GA 105/Cannon Bridge Road. The 77-year-old Demorest woman was the wife of former commissioner Lee Mulkey. She died at the scene.
Higgins, who was 19 years old at the time of the fatal wreck, told authorities he was reaching for something underneath his seat when the crash occurred.
On November 3, he was arrested and charged with second-degree vehicular homicide, violating Georgia’s hands-free law, and failure to maintain lane, according to jail records. All three counts are misdemeanors.
Higgins was booked at the Habersham County jail and released on a $4700 bond.
