A jury in Cobb County convicted 56-year-old Walter Leon Gabriel on Thursday, Dec. 7, of all charges, including aggravated assault and serious injury by vehicle.
The trial began Dec. 4 with jury selection, prior to which Gabriel was free on bond.
Reynolds also stated that evidence uncovered in the Cobb County Police Department investigation showed that about 2 a.m. on Sept. 25, 2015, Gabriel and his wife of 26 years were arguing about his infidelity at an extended-stay motel on Powers Ferry Road in Marietta, Georgia.
Prosecutors said Gabriel then indicated his intention to leave the argument and made his way to his truck. His wife followed “begging for her medication that was stored in the truck.”
The woman testified that she and her husband made eye contact, after which he put the truck in gear and accelerated toward her, and that she “could not move out of the way quickly due to her disability.”
After hitting the woman with the truck, Gabriel drove away, prosecutors stated.
As Gabriel drove away in his truck, “horrified” onlookers who had seen the assault helped the woman, Reynolds stated.
The victim, who is now 54, sustained multiple broken bones in the attack and has endured repeated surgeries.
The woman’s thigh bone, calf bone, and left foot were all broken in the attack, the FresnoBee reported, as were two of her ribs.
