The Charlotte Observer
BOLIVIA, North Carolina -- Ramiro Gallegos will serve up to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder charges in the wreck that killed a Mount Holly teacher and prompted legislators to propose tougher immigration laws.
Gallegos, 26, an illegal immigrant with five previous DWI charges, had a 0.22 blood alcohol level, nearly three times the legal limit, when the truck he was driving struck Scott Gardner's station wagon on N.C. 130 in Brunswick County last July.
Gardner, a teacher and baseball coach at Highland School of Technology in Gastonia, died and his wife, Tina, was critically injured. The couple were taking their two young children on a family vacation in Sunset Beach.
Posted by Richard at February 19, 2006