GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The wife of a man killed in a crash where the driver left the scene is reacting to the charges brought against the driver.
Emily Taphouse feels the penalty does not fit the crime alleged.
Next week, the woman who police say was driving the car that struck and killed a 30-year-old father of two will be in court to be formally charged. The Ottawa County Prosecutor’s Office said the charge will be a misdemeanor.
“You would think that someone who hit and killed your husband, your girls’ father, would be charged with something more than leaving the scene of a personal injury accident,” Taphouse said. “It wasn’t an injury, he died.”
Korey Taphouse, 30, was struck and killed as he walked along Port Sheldon Street near 48th Avenue in Georgetown Township, less than a mile from the home he shared with his wife and two daughters under the age of 5.
The car that struck him would keep going and soon a woman would call authorities telling police she believed she had hit a deer.
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