According to the Escambia County Jail website, Greg Nesmith was released late on the afternoon of Nov. 24.
Former Escambia Sheriff’s Deputy Greg Nesmith was booked into the Escambia County Jail shortly after 9 p.m. on Nov. 23 on two counts of vehicular homicide negligent manslaughter and he is being held on $40,000 bond, according to the Escambia County Jail website.
He was initially being held without bond, but bond was set during a 1:30 p.m. hearing on Nov. 24. As of mid-afternoon on Nov. 24 the Escambia County Jail website showed he remained in jail.
According to the Escambia Clerk website, he is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges at 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 19.
Nesmith is charged in the deaths of two 20-year-olds, Nicole Moore and Jackson Cunningham of the Birmingham, Alabama area, who the Florida Highway Patrol says Nesmith hit and killed early on the morning of July 4 as the two young people were in the crosswalk, walking across Perdido Key Drive to the beach.
State troopers say Nesmith was speeding and his car data shows he was going 74 mph five seconds before the collision.
He hit the brakes when he saw them at the last minute, he told FHP. The posted speed limit is 45 mph.
The Florida Highway Patrol also says Nesmith failed to stop for an oncoming emergency vehicle, an ambulance that approached the crosswalk from the opposite direction as the four friends were walking through it around the same time Nesmith was approaching.
Police believe the lights from the ambulance made it difficult for Nesmith to see the pedestrians.
The families of the victims currently have wrongful death lawsuits pending against Nesmith.
This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Former Escambia deputy charged with vehicular homicide jailed
Reporting by Mollye Barrows, Pensacola News Journal / Pensacola News Journal
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