BUTLER COUNTY — An 18-year-old woman has been sentence after pleading guilty to charges connected to a crash that killed a Butler County high school student.
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A Butler County judge sentenced Rebecca Kumar to two years in prison for a Middletown crash that killed Laith Masri, 14, of Liberty Township, according to our news partner WCPO in Cincinnati.
As previously reported by News Center 7, Kumar pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated vehicular homicide and three counts of vehicular assault back in November.
The charges stem from a single-vehicle crash in an area of N. Verity Parkway and Hughes Street in Middletown in March.
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When officers got to the scene, Middletown police found a 2015 black Cadillac SUV carrying six people. It had gone off the road and overturned into a wooded area.
Prosecutors said in court that Kumar had been driving nearly three times the speed limit before the crash, reaching speeds of 103 mph in a 35 mph zone, WXIX and WLWT previously reported.
A crash report stated she failed to negotiate a curve.
Masri, 14, died from his injuries, News Center 7 previously reported.
Masri was a freshman at Lakota West High School.
The other five people suffered injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening.
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