ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A west Georgia mayor has been found guilty of vehicular homicide and several other charges related to a 2015 crash that killed two teenagers and injured two others while he was a state trooper.

A.J. Scott, currently the mayor of Buchanan, was found guilty of one count of second-degree vehicular homicide, two counts of serious injury by vehicle and speeding.

Scott was acquitted of a second count of second-degree vehicular homicide.

He was also found guilty of a sixth charge that the jury did not specify. The other charges he faced were reckless driving and violation of oath by a public officer.

He will be sentenced at a later date.

Jurors delivered the verdict around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, a day after they began deliberating.

Scott stood accused of ca

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