OSAGE – An Osage man who was found guilty by a jury of vehicular homicide in a drunk driving case that cost a Charles City man his life has been sent to prison for 25 years.
A Mitchell county jury returned the guilty verdict on Friday, December 12, against 23-year-old Tylor Patrick. At his sentencing hearing on January 30, 2015, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison by judge Rustin Davenport. Patrick was denied a new trial when his lawyer, Joseph LaPointe, made the request. He intends to appeal the sentence, and that filing has already been made.
Patrick was also given a year in prison for operating while intoxicated, and that sentence will run concurrently with the 25-year sentence. He was also ordered to pay $12,393.70 in fines, restitution and court fees.
On September 20 at about 11:37 PM, Patrick was driving a 1999 Oldsmobile Alero southbound on Hickory Avenue about 1 mile north of Highway 9 in Mitchell county when he lost control of the vehicle and it left the roadway. The vehicle proceeded to roll several times, coming to rest upright in the northbound ditch.
Injured was Patrick, who was taken to Mercy Hospital in Mason City; Clinton Deaton, age 25, of Osage, who was taken to Mercy Hospital; Carissa Dolan, 16, from Texas, who was taken to Mercy Hospital; Aimee Deetz, 24, from Charles City, who was taken to the Mitchel County Hospital; and Caitlin Block, 20, who was taken to the Mitchel County Hospital.
Jesse Wilson, 22, of Charles City, was killed in the accident.
It was later determined after an investigation that Patrick was intoxicated and he was charged with felony B vehicular homicide for driving drunk and causing the accident.
Later, Patrick was charged by Osage police with felony D possession of contraband in a jail and driving with a revoked license. Patrick will now face these charges at a March 4, 2015 trial.
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