4 Boys Get Youth Treatment After Sandbag Hits Car, Kills Man
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Four teenagers charged after a sandbag thrown from an Ohio highway overpass killed a Michigan man have been sentenced to a program at a youth treatment facility.
Police say the boys, who were then 13 or 14, threw rocks and sandbags onto Interstate 75 near downtown Toledo in December. One sandbag smashed through a car windshield and injured a rider, 22-year-old Marquise Byrd of Warren, Michigan, who later died.
The boys apologized to Byrd's family in juvenile court Friday. The judge said they could end up in juvenile detention for years if they don't complete programming of unspecified length at the youth treatment center.
Byrd's family was upset, calling the sentence too light.
The judge says the treatment program could help change the boys' behavior better than juvenile detention can.
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