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Drunk Driver Kills Punta Gorda Mother Of Three

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The Florida Highway Patrol has reported that a Texas man has been arrested for killing a Punta Gorda woman Monday morning in a car accident in Port Charlotte. In that car was a 37-year-old Angela Harris. She died on the scene. Harris leaves behind three children.

23-year-old Devon Thomas Barber was impaired when he was speeding on US 41 and slammed into the back of another car, sending the car careening off the road and into a ditch.

Devon Thomas Barber of Texas, has been charged with DUI with death to human or unborn child, vehicular homicide of a person, and three counts of DUI with damage to property or person of another. Barber’s arrest report lists him as being in the Navy.

He is being held at Charlotte County Jail without bond.