DALTON, Ga. — A man who investigators say caused the death of his friend in a 2016 car crash and a man who threatened his girlfriend and her parents with a kitchen knife were two of 40 cases indicted during the January term of the Whitfield County grand jury.

Davey Joe Vineyard, 58, was arrested in July of 2016 at Hamilton Medical Center when he sought treatment for his injuries after wrecking his car and leaving the scene of the accident on Reed Road. Passenger Kerry Walker, 42, of Dalton, was killed in the wreck just south of Rauschenberg Road.

According to the Georgia State Patrol at the time of the wreck, Vineyard was driving a Cadillac north on Reed Road and went into the southbound lane coming over a hill. A report says he overcorrected and the car went off the shoulder of the road before hitting a tree. Walker died at the scene, and Vineyard fled on foot.

According to the indictment, Vineyard was driving in excess of 70 miles per hour in the 45 miles-per-hour zone. Vineyard was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide (one through reckless driving and one through leaving the scene), hit and run, reckless driving and failure to maintain lane.

He was released on a $23,400 property bond in December of 2017.

Vineyard’s case was one of 40 handed down by the grand jury.

• In another case, Hunter Andrew Daughtrey, 21, was indicted on three counts of aggravated assault, three counts of terroristic threats, cruelty to children in the third degree and criminal trespass after he was arrested in November of last year.

According to an incident report, witnesses said Daughtrey threatened to kill his wife and his in-laws with a kitchen steak knife and did so in the presence of a child. Witnesses also claimed Daughtrey threw the steak knife at his mother-in-law while she and the wife were trying to leave.

Also, a witness said he damaged property of a neighbor by smashing a rock against his satellite television dish.

Daughtrey has been in the Whitfield County jail since his arrest on Nov. 12 and has an $8,000 bond.