Man sentenced in Fort Wayne student’s death

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A man convicted last month of reckless homicide in the March 2014 death of a Bishop Dwenger student was sentenced Monday in Allen Superior Court.

Jeremy Washington was sentenced to seven years in prison and two additional years of probation on charges of reckless homicide, causing death when operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, causing serious bodily injury when operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, and criminal recklessness while armed with a deadly weapon.

The sentence was handed down just over a month after a jury found him guilty of four of 11 charges in the death of 17-year-old Haley Nellum.

That jury acquitted Washington then of additional felony charges including murder.