Minneapolis man sentenced to over 4 years in prison for drunken driving crash
Bobby Brookins. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office)
A Minneapolis man has learned his fate after pleading guilty in December to criminal vehicular homicide.
Bobby Brookins, 34, was sentenced Thursday to over four years (57 months) in prison at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud.
Brookins pleaded guilty to a count of criminal vehicular homicide, admitting to drunken driving when he hit a 16-year-old skateboarder last June.
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The skateboarder was identified as 16-year-old Dychaun Chew.
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Brookins admitted to police at the time of his arrest that he was driving the vehicle and hit the victim. The black box in the suspect vehicle, a Chevrolet Traverse, showed that Brookins was traveling 55 mph when the airbags deployed and that he never hit the brakes, the complaint states.