On September 25, 2017, Riddick Alexander Tudor was leaving school when an SUV crashed into him and two other children. The driver, Lonnie Yeager, claimed that he was having a seizure at the time of the crash, which killed 10-year-old Riddick.
Lonnie was a career criminal who had served time for armed robbery, felony drug possession, and parole violations. During one of these prison terms, he suffered a head injury that left him subject to occasional seizures. Because of this, he was ineligible to drive a vehicle. Two years before killing Riddick, Lonnie was arrested for driving while intoxicated and without a license. In the months after Riddick's death, with no charges having been filed yet, Lonnie tried to obtain a driver's license by declaring that he had no history of seizures.
Finally, a year after crushing the boy to death, Lonnie was charged with driving without a license and making a false declaration on his license application. He was sentenced to one year in jail.
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