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Jack Dillon Young, of Leakey, Texas, was sentenced Friday to 55 years in prison for driving into a church bus in South Texas last year, killing 13 people on the bus.
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Jack Dillon Young, of Leakey, Texas, was sentenced Friday to 55 years in prison for driving into a church bus in South Texas last year, killing 13 people on the bus.
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The driver of a van that crashed into a church bus in March 2017, killing 13 passengers, was sentenced to 55 years in prison on Friday.
Jack Dillon Young had smoked marijuana and abused a prescription antidepressant before the head-on collision with the bus carrying members of the New Braunfels First Baptist Church Choir in Texas, reported MySanAntonio.com. The fatal accident occurred about 75 miles west of San Antonio.
The 21-year-old defense attorney asked the judge for leniency and said the medications prescribed to Young were not properly monitored by doctors, according to the Associated Press.
The church choir was returning from a retreat in Leakey, where Young lived at the time. The only surviving passenger was seated furthest from the point of impact.
Jack Dillon Young, the van driver shown on this 31 March 2017 photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, was sentenced to 55 years in prison on Friday. Young killed 13 people in the March 29, 2017 accident near Garner State Park in Texas.
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Jack Dillon Young, the van driver shown on this 31 March 2017 photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, was sentenced to 55 years in prison on Friday. Young killed 13 people in the March 29, 2017 accident near Garner State Park in Texas.
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Young and members of his family testified at the three-day sentencing hearing.
Young's testimony included an apology to the families of the victims. "I can not express in words how sorry I am," he said, according to KFDM-TV.
"I wish every day that it is me," he added. "That should not have been them, if I could, I would do it without hesitation, I would like to be able to describe how sorry I am, but I can not, nothing will ever do it justice." I'm sorry for what I took to you all. "
According to the AP, "Young has not pleaded any challenge in June against 13 counts of manslaughter and a charge of drug addiction".
He had faced 270 years in prison.
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