A 28-year-old Minneapolis woman was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on Monday after she pleaded guilty to hitting and killing a mother of four.
Donella Shanice Day was driving 45 miles per hour when she hit 37-year-old Aisha Freels on New Year's Eve. Day struck Freels as she walked across Lyndale Avenue N. near 40th Avenue to get into a waiting cab, according to the Hennepin County attorney's office.
She was hit in front of her home and declared dead at the scene.
Day fled the scene. Acting on a tip, police went to her home three days later, where she admitted to the crime, according to the criminal charge. She pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular homicide during the summer.
BRANDON STAHL
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