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16-Year-Old Charged With Vehicular Homicide

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A very emotional John Holland, Jr. (center, teal t-shirt) seeks comfort from an unidentified friend at the scene of an accident involving a death on Countryway Blvd. late Wednesday afternoon. Holland was identified by HCSO officials as the driver of the vehicle that lost control and struck a moped, killing its driver. (9/26/07)

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TBO.com staff

Published: October 18, 2007

Updated: 10/18/2007 07:06 pm

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TAMPA – A 16-year-old Alonso High School student faces vehicular homicide charges in the death of a 49-year-old motorbike rider on Countryway Boulevard in September.

John Holland Jr. turned himself in at the Juvenile Assessment Center at 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

The wreck occurred about 3:17 p.m. Sept. 26 on Countryway Boulevard just south of Woodbay Drive, deputies said. Holland, 16, a sophomore at Alonso High School, was driving a 2005 Nissan 350 Z sports car north on Countryway.

Holland lost control of the sports car, hitting and killing Robert Jeff Baughman, 49, who was headed south on a motor scooter, authorities said. The car then went into a pond. Holland and passenger Trevor Ekovich, also a 10th-grader at Alonso, was not hurt.

Ekovich has not been charged in the incident.

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