Slaughter is charged with gross vehicular manslaughter stemming from a traffic collision on April 1, 2017, in Sierra County, in which Robert Douglas Shaffer of Loyalton was killed when Slaughter allowed his vehicle to cross over the solid, double-yellow center line and into the path of Shaffer’s vehicle. Slaughter is being held at the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in Nevada City in lieu of $125,000 bail.