Man sentenced for hit-and-run death of Tippecanoe Valley Middle School student
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ROCHESTER, Ind. (WNDU) - A Fulton County man is in prison after pleading guilty to his role in a deadly hit-and-run crash.
The crash happened north of Akron on Nov. 5, 2021. 12-year-old Tippecanoe Valley Middle School student Brelynna Felix was killed, and a 15-year-old boy was injured.
In October, 27-year-old Gage Rogers admitted to leaving the scene of the crash as part of a plea agreement. He’s now received a 9-and-a-half year sentence.
Two years of that sentence will be served behind bars. The remainder will be spent in a home detention program, followed by probation.
According to Liz Shepherd and InkFreeNews, Rogers apologized to the victims’ families in court, saying had he known what happened, he would have stopped.
An earlier version of this article cited the Times-Union in Warsaw as the source of another article on this story. It has since been corrected to reflect Liz Shepherd and InkFreeNews.
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