Rasheed Cottonham
Rasheed Cottonham pleaded guilty March 5 to a charge of 2nd Degree Assault for driving while intoxicated resulting in injury, a Class-C felony.
On New Years Day, 2015, Mr Cottonham, 25, was driving on US-169 highway just south of St Joseph, when his vehicle left the highway, overturned, and crashed through a fence. The accident killed his passenger, Aaron Thomas of Kansas City.
On Thursday, Buchanan County Circuit Judge Daniel Kellogg sentenced Cottonham to four years in prison.