TOLEDO, Ohio — A Toledo man was sentenced Wednesday for a crash that killed his passenger and damaged a Toledo duplex in 2021.
Lee Moore was sentenced to 16 months behind bars on Wednesday. A judge also ordered Moore's driver's license suspended for five years.
Moore entered an Alford plea to vehicular homicide earlier this month. Moore was initially charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and one count of failure to comply.
An Alford plea is not an admission of guilt. A defendant entering an Alford plea agrees to be found guilty without admitting they committed the crime.
Toledo police say they were attempting to stop Moore’s vehicle on Oct. 6, 2021, when he fled the stop, leading police on a chase before crashing into a duplex on the 1600 block of Nebraska Avenue at Brown Avenue.
Moore was seriously injured. His passenger, 20-year-old Kemarr Thomas, was killed in the crash.
A 60-year-old woman who lives on the second story of the duplex had to be rescued by firefighters out of her bedroom window by climbing down a ladder. WTOL 11 talked to the woman's sister Vickie Ross, who said she was terrified.
"When I got here and they were bringing my sister out of the window, that was a scary feeling,” Ross said. "I'm just thankful to God that my sister's still here."
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