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Fort Wayne-area man gets 8 years for crash that killed woman

Posted October 26, 2018 7:00 am

The Associated Press

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - A Fort Wayne-area man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for a fiery crash that killed his girlfriend .

The Journal Gazette reports 30-year-old Jeremy Hoerger of New Haven was sentenced Friday to 14 years, with six years suspended. He'll also serve four years of probation, with the first year on home detention.

Hoerger pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated causing death for the June 29 crash that killed 27-year-old Juliet Ann Taylor Schebelt. It was his fourth drunken driving offense.

Court documents say Hoerger had a blood-alcohol content of 0.27 percent, or more than three times Indiana's legal limit, when his SUV left a road, struck a tree and caught fire. Witnesses pulled him unconscious from the wreck, but couldn't extract Schebelt. She died from blunt force injuries.

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Information from: The Journal Gazette, http://www.journalgazette.net

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