LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A 23-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to four to eight years for causing a motorcycle crash that killed his girlfriend in 2014.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports (https://bit.ly/2gR0k2f ) Tyler Wilson was sentenced Thursday in Lancaster County District Court. Wilson pleaded no contest in December to manslaughter in the case.
Wilson was driving his motorcycle with his 21-year-old girlfriend, Jessie McCain, on the back of the bike in July 2014. Prosecutors say he was traveling at more than 80 mph on a street where the speed limit was 40 mph when he hit a Jeep, killing McCain.
Wilson had faced up to 20 years in prison.
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Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, https://www.journalstar.com
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