Man gets 21 months for wreck that killed Leander firefighter
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A man who left his passenger fatally wounded after a wreck last year was sentenced today to 21 months in jail.
Earlier this month, Riley Shipman pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide, a state jail felony, in 368th District Court.
Shipman, 21, hit a tree on U.S. 183 in Leander on March 2, 2006, after he lost control of his pickup. He left an injured Steven Kincaid on the passenger side.
Shipman said that Kincaid, a Leander firefighter, was not responsive when he fled on foot, according to court documents. Kincaid, 21, was dead when he was found by police.
A blood test taken by police later at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin revealed that Shipman had traces of alcohol in his bloodstream, according to court documents, but it wasn’t enough to prove that he was drunk at the time of the accident.
“You may not have willfully or intentionally killed (Steven), but you willfully and intentionally left him to die,” Steven Kincaid’s mother, Cynthia Kincaid, said to Shipman after the sentencing.
The Kincaid family said the two were best friends. The Shipman family declined to comment after the sentencing.
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To clear things up for anyone who reads this…coming from one who would know better than any. My family and myself never once claimed the two to be “best friends”. I really wish people would have their facts straight before speaking.