Ex 'Little Women: Atlanta' star pleads guilty in Coast Guardsman's death
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Melissa Hancock, who appeared in Lifetime's "Little Women: Atlanta" pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. Coast Guard technician in a drunken 2017 car crash. (Virginia State Police)
A former reality TV star has pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. Coast Guard technician in a drunken wrong-way collision on a Virginia highway.
The Virginian-Pilot reports 25-year-old Melissa Hancock pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated DUI manslaughter in the November 2017 death of 29-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Dill.
In March, Hancock entered pleas of no contest to driving the wrong way and failing to obey a highway sign. Those misdemeanors don't carry jail time, but the felony manslaughter charge carries a one-year minimum jail sentence.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}At the time of the crash, Dill was driving to pick up his wife and friends, who were celebrating her birthday.
Hancock appeared on Lifetime's "Little Women: Atlanta," a reality show about women of short stature.
Sentencing is set for Oct. 10.