Minnesota minister gets prison for drunken driving fatality
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A minister has been sentenced to four years in prison for driving drunk and killing a woman who was on her way to work as a Minneapolis 911 dispatcher.
Seventy-three-year-old Richard Shaka, a former college professor, was sentenced in Hennepin County District Court for a February 2018 crash that killed 30-year-old Jenna Bixby on a Brooklyn Park highway.
The Star Tribune reports that with time spent in jail, Shaka will serve the first 2? years in prison and the balance on supervised release.
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Prosecutors say Shaka had a blood-alcohol content of 0.16% — twice the legal limit for driving in Minnesota — when he crossed into Bixby's lane and struck her vehicle.
Shaka taught theology at North Central University in Minneapolis from 1996 until 2011.
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Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com