The Brief
- Jerry Denson was sentenced to 26 months in prison for a 2017 DUI crash in Kent that killed 28-year-old Joy Brannon.
- Denson spent more than eight years on the run before authorities arrested him in West Seattle in April.
- Brannon’s family addressed the court after years of waiting for Denson to be held accountable for her death.
SEATTLE – A driver who killed a woman and wound up on the Washington’s Most Wanted list for more than eight years was sentenced to just over two years in prison for vehicular homicide.
Jerry C. Denson pleaded guilty to DUI, vehicular homicide and reckless endangerment, stemming from a deadly crash in 2017.
The backstory:
Denson crashed on I-5 near State Route 516 in Kent while driving under the influence of weed and alcohol, killing 28-year-old Joy Brannon, who was in the backseat after Denson and two friends picked her up from the hair salon where she worked.…