PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of his passenger in a drunken driving crash.
The Panama City News Herald (https://goo.gl/LZQP3h ) reports that 35-year-old Brian Helms was sentenced after pleading no contest Thursday to DUI manslaughter and several other charges.
Authorities say Helms was fleeing police and driving more than 100 mph on a Panama City Beach street in September 2015 when he ran a red light and hit a delivery truck. The crash killed his passenger, 38-year-old Tiffany Quimby, and injured two men in the truck.
Helms and Quimby had been suspects in a grand theft at Walmart two days before the crash. A police officer had tried to pull Helms over, but he sped away.
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Information from: The (Panama City, Fla.) News Herald, https://www.newsherald.com
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