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5½ years for hit-run death sion. While Schultes said Parent Black Press did not intend to hit O’Brien, Brent Parent has been sentenced his actions to swerve his truck to 5½ years behind bars towards the three young and a 12-year driving men on the side of that ban for the hit-and-run dark road were “fraught death of 21-year-old Silas with risk.” O’Brien. O’Brien’s father, RodIn New Westminster ger, spoke to the media Supreme Court Thursday, outside court, saying the Parent, 43, received 4½ sentence was what he years for criminal negliexpected. He thanked the gence causing death, nine Crown and Integrated months for dangerous Homicide Investigation Brent Parent driving and three months Team “for all the work for failing to stay at the they put into this.” scene of an accident. Sam Dooley and Luke Stephen, In sentencing, Judge Terence who were on their way to the airSchultes said vehicles must never port with O’Brien that tragic night be used as instruments of aggres- in March 2008, also attended the Monique Tamminga
sentencing. In the early morning hours of March 13, 2008, O’Brien, Dooley and Stephen were driving on 16 Avenue in South Langley on their way to a Seattle airport. Parent, driving a diesel Ford F350, became enraged when he thought the Chevy Silverado O’Brien was riding in had deliberately flashed its high beams at him. The judge said Parent refused to let them pass, forcing the other pickup into a ditch. Parent then returned to the scene, swerved towards the young men, striking and killing O’Brien.
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