A Wisconsin man was sentenced to 54 years in prison Wednesday for the hit-and-run deaths of three Girl Scouts and a mother as they picked up trash along a rural road in 2018.
Prosecutors had requested a 90-year sentence, while the defense requested 22 years behind bars.
Authorities said Treu was huffing from an aerosol canister before he crashed his pickup truck into the Girl Scouts as they picked up trash along a highway in western Wisconsin. He then drove away.
The four people killed in the crash were Jayna Kelley, 9; Autumn Helgeson, 10, both of Lake Hallie, Wisconsin; Haylee Hickle, 10, and her mother, Sara Jo Schneider, 32, both of the Town of Lafayette, Wisconsin.
A 10-year-old girl was injured in the crash and was hospitalized for three weeks.
54 years for hit-and-run driver that killed 3 girls, mother
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man was sentenced to 54 years in prison Wednesday for the hit-and-run deaths of three Girl Scouts and a mother as they picked up trash along a rural road in 2018. Colten Treu, 23, earlier pleaded no contest to four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of...
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I feel like the entire state would do well to be this tough on all impaired driving, including drunk driving.