BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A man who hit and killed a Colorado State Patrol cadet and injured a trooper while fleeing from police will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Gebers was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison plus 342 years in Boulder for killing Taylor Thyfault (TEE’-foe) and injuring Trooper Clinton Rushing.
Relatives of the two men testified during the hearing in which Gebers apologized for the May 2015 crash near Longmont.
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Thyfault and Rushing were working at an unrelated crash when Gebers hit them. Prosecutors say he was under the influence of methamphetamine.
Three members of the state patrol have been killed by drivers in the last 18 months. Most recently, Trooper Cody Donahue was hit by a truck on Interstate 25 south of Castle Rock on Friday.
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