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Nevada DUI Leads to Prison Sentence After Runner Killed

By Michael

Joshua Salayich cried as he asked for leniency from the judge who would sentence him for DUI in the October death of a runner from Utah. The family members of the victim were also in the courthouse, and they had described the pain of losing Jeremy Kunz, a father and youth leader from Kamas, Utah. The sentence handed down to Salayich was 7 to 20 years in prison. This was slightly more harsh than the 6 to 20 years recommended by parole and probation officials, reports the Reno Gazette-Journal. Kunz was participating in one leg of a relay race from Valley of Fire State Park to the Red Rock Resort when Salayich hit him while driving at 4:30 a.m. An eyewitness, another runner in the race, said that Kunz had tried to jump out of the way of the Nissan Altima that would strike and ultimately kill him...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).