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Drunk driver gets four years for death of passenger

Rasheed Cottonham
Rasheed Cottonham
A Kansas City man whose drunk driving claimed the life of his passenger faces four years in prison.

Rasheed Cottonham pleaded guilty March 5 to a charge of 2nd Degree Assault for driving while intoxicated resulting in injury, a Class-C felony.

On New Years Day, 2015, Mr Cottonham, 25, was driving on US-169 highway just south of St Joseph, when his vehicle left the highway, overturned, and crashed through a fence. The accident killed his passenger, Aaron Thomas of Kansas City.

On Thursday, Buchanan County Circuit Judge Daniel Kellogg sentenced Cottonham to four years in prison.

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