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Published: 2/12/2009 7:53 pm

Updated: 2/14/2009 1:20 pm

A 22 year old Stoneboro, Pennsylvania man was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday morning after pleading guilty to charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and hit skip.

DeWayne Redinger was sentenced in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court after a brief hearing. Prosecutors say in August of 2007, Redinger pulled out in front of a motorcycle on state Route 82 in Brookfield. The rider, Michael Brown was killed. After the crash, Redinger fled the scene. Troopers arrested him on the charges several months later.

While Redinger apologized in court Thursday, the victim's family says it doesn't take away the pain. "He left my husband there on the side of the road. He just took off. And just him not caring if he had a family, kids or family. He went about his life until he got caught," said Dawn Brown, wife of the victim.

Redinger could have spent up to five years in prison.

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annabelle58 - 2/12/2009 10:48 PM

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I would first like to say that 2yrs is an insult to the Brown family. I am a very good friend of Micheal Brown's wife Dawn. That man took away a beautiful,kind,loving,giving man, and 2yrs is never enough for taking a life. That man made that decision to leave the scene after he hit Micheal. He didnt even care to see if Micheal needed help. now to me, thats the kind of person who doesnt value life in the least. So how can they only give him 2yrs? He's only sorry now, because he got caught. He wasent suffering the many months that he was free. When Michael's family was suffering from the loss of their loved 1. I know that GOD will deal with him in his way, but it is still very wrong for that man to basically get away with murder.

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