Winnipeg man sentenced to 7 years in prison for hit-and-run death of Jordyn Reimer
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The man responsible for killing a 24-year-old Winnipeg woman in a hit and run has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Dozens of friends and family members packed a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday as Judge Kael McKenzie read out the sentence for Tyler Scott Goodman, 30, who pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death and failing to stop at the scene of the crash that killed Jordyn Reimer.
McKenzie handed down a six-year sentence for the impaired driving causing death charge and an additional one-year sentence for failing to stop at the scene. Goodman will serve these sentences one after the other.
The judge said no sentence the court can impose would be enough to match the value of a life.
"The taking of a life by crime is immeasurable," he said.
Goodman is also banned from driving for more than eight years after his sentence is complete.
After the sentence was read aloud, Reimer's mother stood up and shouted out that the sentence was "garbage," before breaking down and leaving the court in tears.
Reimer, 24, was killed in the early morning hours of May 1, 2022, in a two-vehicle collision in Winnipeg's Transcona neighbourhood.
She was the designated driver for friends the night she was killed.
Goodman, who was just days shy of turning 29 at the time of the collision, consumed nine or 10 drinks at the Joe's Pandora Inn bar in Transcona on the night of April 30, court heard previously. As the bar closed, he and three friends bought a pack of 15 beers.
Goodman ran two stop signs before hitting the driver's side of Reimer's SUV around 2:10 a.m., as she drove west on Kildare Avenue on her way to pick up a friend, court heard.
He was going more than 100 km/h at the time of the collision, Crown attorney Matt Armstrong previously told the court, citing an analysis of data from his vehicle and a collision reconstruction report.
The speed limit in the residential area is 50 km/h, and the intersection where the crash happened is controlled by stop signs facing north and south.
Goodman pleaded guilty to the charges in May.
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