Onetime school bus driver gets more than 3 years for fatal hit-and-run in Brooklyn Park
He left the scene despite the pleas of a witness.
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He left the scene despite the pleas of a witness.
A school bus driver convicted of striking and killing a pedestrian in a Minneapolis suburb and then fleeing the scene has been sentenced to more than three years in prison. Thirty-five-year-old Jason Rynders, of Maple Grove, pleaded guilty in November to criminal vehicular homicide in the March 2020 death of 45-year-old Devon Lizbeth Doherty. Prosecutors say a man who was driving to work that day saw a school bus parked on the right side of the road and then felt his car hit something. He got out and saw that he had hit a woman. Rynders was outside of the bus and the man yelled at him to call ...
Prosecutors say they will seek a four-year term at sentencing in January.