A Fannin County jury awarded nearly $129 million to a family on Friday who lost one child in a 2011 Fourth of July wreck that also seriously injured the mother and three other children, including one left permanently paralyzed.

The at-fault driver, Jake Lee, was only 16 years old at the time and was drinking alcohol and huffing aerosol computer keyboard duster. He admitted liability and is currently serving 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide.

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