The first was Cade.

Cade Gaddis had a DWI conviction from 2017 and a second charge pending from the previous July that had not yet been to court.

A third would have been a felony.

And a crash causing serious bodily injury while intoxicated is intoxication assault, which is a third-degree felony in Texas, and when the victim is a child there are enhancements, and Cade Gaddis at thirty-eight was looking at the end of his life as he understood it.

An ambulance brings a deputy.