A Geneva man has been sentenced to 10 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for killing one man and injuring two others in a DUI crash last year.
man has been sentenced to 10 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for killing one man and injuring two others in a DUI crash last year.to one count of aggravated DUI causing death and one count of aggravated DUI causing great bodily harm.
At about 7:40 p.m. on March 7, 2022, Aurora police officers responded to a crash on northbound Eola Road. When officers arrived, they located 73-year-old Willie Mosley, of Maywood, suffering from serious injuries.While investigating, detectives determined that Mosley and another person stopped on the road and, with help from a good Samaritan who pulled over to help, were reloading a refrigerator onto their pickup truck that had fallen off.
As the men were loading the refrigerator onto the truck, Roepke crashed into the truck, pinning Mosley between the vehicle and the truck and injuring the two other men.The good Samaritan was taken to an area hospital and suffered serious injuries. Roepke was transported to an area hospital for minor injuries and was released to the Aurora Police Department."This afternoon, Nicholas Roepke learned that his decision to drive after he had been drinking will cost him the next ten years of his life," said DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin.
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