ST. LOUIS — A man was sentenced on Thursday to a decade in prison for causing a crash that killed four young adults and injured four others in St. Louis' Midtown neighborhood.
Cedric E. Dixon, 35, pleaded guilty to four counts each of involuntary manslaughter and second-degree assault and one count of leaving the scene of a crash.
The crash happened on Feb. 26, 2023, at South Grand Boulevard at Forest Park Parkway. Police said dixon ran a red light and struck a Tahoe SUV. The Tahoe careened over a guardrail and landed upside-down on Forest Park Avenue, which ran below Grand Boulevard.
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All eight of the young people inside the Tahoe had recently graduated high school or were close to reaching that milestone.
Four people — 20-year-old Corntrail McKinley, 19-year-old Anthony Robinson, 19-year-old Richard Boyd, and 18-year-old Bryanna Johnson — died in the crash. The other four occupants were injured but survived.
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Dixon fled the scene and later turned himself in to police, according to court documents.
In exchange for Dixon's plea, prosecutors dropped several other counts of armed criminal action. He received a 10-year prison sentence for each count of armed criminal action and was ordered to serve all terms concurrently.
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