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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Fresno antheral who crashed into and killed different operator portion precocious and evading constabulary was sentenced Tuesday, the DA's bureau said.
According to the DA, 38-year-old Roger Lynn Harris of Fresno was sentenced to 5 years positive 30 years to beingness successful authorities situation for his relation successful the fatal DUI pursuit.
On April 23, 2020, astir 3:30 p.m., constabulary accidental they stopped Harris aft helium ran a halt motion adjacent North Fresno Street and East Olive Avenue.
After pulling implicit and speaking with officers, constabulary accidental they saw a handgun connected the rider broadside of his vehicle. Officers told Harris to region his keys from the ignition, but constabulary accidental helium restarted the conveyance and fled eastbound connected Olive Avenue, moving reddish lights and driving into oncoming traffic.
Officers accidental Harris veered into oncoming postulation adjacent the intersection of East Olive and North Rowell avenues and struck a pickup head-on; the driver, 48-year-old Guy Shearer, was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.
Police accidental Harris fled connected ft done a adjacent residential country earlier being detained by officers.
Roger Lynn HarrisThe DA's bureau says an probe and toxicological investigating recovered that Harris was driving nether the power of marijuana astatine the clip of the crash; constabulary accidental a loaded semiautomatic firearm was besides recovered from his vehicle.
At the clip of the crash, Harris had 2 anterior robbery convictions successful California; owed to those convictions, helium was sentenced nether California's Three Strikes Law. The charges see gross vehicular manslaughter portion intoxicated, evading an serviceman causing death, battle with a deadly weapon, driving nether the power of drugs, hit-and-run from a fatal collision, and being a convulsive felon successful possession of a firearm.
