DENVER (AP) - A man who hit and killed a Colorado State Patrol cadet and injured a trooper while fleeing a traffic stop is set to be sentenced Friday.
KUSA-TV reports (https://on9news.tv/2e998lT ) that 28-year-old Christopher Gebers is facing a life sentence after being convicted by a Boulder County jury of first0-degree murder in the death of cadet Taylor Thyfault (TEE’-foe).
Thyfault and was killed and Trooper Clinton Rushing was injured May 23. Prosecutors say Gebers was under the influence of methamphetamine and fleeing a traffic stop when he came upon an unrelated traffic crash west of Longmont and struck the two men. He blamed a mechanical malfunction on his car for the crash.
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Information from: KUSA-TV, https://www.9news.com
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