Man sentenced to 4 years in prison after hit-and-run crash killed woman on mobility scooter
A man who pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular homicide was sentenced to four years (50 months) in state prison as well as five years of probation.
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Cameron Mikkel Bendson, 22, was sentenced Friday.
He was charged in October after the Jeep Grand Cherokee he was driving hit a woman on a motorized mobility scooter near North Aldrich Avenue and West Broadway Avenue.
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The woman, who died of multiple blunt force injuries, was identified as 70-year-old Rosie Lee Means.
Means had just left a north Minneapolis grocery store and was in the crosswalk when she was hit.
Cameron Mikkel Bendson. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office)
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Bendson entered a guilty plea in January.
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In court Friday, KSTP Reporter Eric Chaloux reported Means’ granddaughter said Means was “strong-willed with a strong heart” and said Bendson “disregarded her life … left her to die in the street.”
Marilyn Reese, Means’ daughter, said of her mother, “there wasn’t anything she wouldn’t or couldn’t do.”
Chaloux reported Bendson told the judge, “I’m very remorseful, I’m having a hard time grasping what happened.”
Judge Peter Cahill replied that it’s the first time he’s ever heard Bendson express remorse, adding, “if it’s real, you should show it’s true by committing to your sobriety.”
In the end, Reese said she didn’t believe Bendson’s words and thinks he should’ve gotten a harsher sentence.
“I feel that justice wasn’t served … he doesn’t get enough time,” she said.
“Rosie meant the world to us … we loved her dearly … we miss her dearly,” she added.