SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - A 37-year-old Springfield man has been sentenced to a year in jail after a crash killed a 10-year-old boy leaving an elementary school.
The Springfield News-Leader reports Lonnie Yeager was sentenced Wednesday for driving without a license, a misdemeanor.
Yeager’s lawyer, Bert Twibell said his client had a seizure before his SUV drove into several pedestrians on Sept. 25, 2017, at Campbell Elementary School.
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Riddick Tudor was killed and four others were injured.
Twibell said Yeager hadn’t had a seizure in 10 years before having one while driving that day.
In 2007, Yeager was granted a court-appointed guardian because he was deemed an incapacitated person. Court documents say Yeager suffered a brain injury in 2007 when his cellmate attacked him in his sleep. The attack left him with “severe cognitive impairment” that included a seizure disorder.
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Information from: Springfield News-Leader, http://www.news-leader.com
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