EUGENE, Ore. – A man accused of a fatal hit-and-run on Eugene’s Prairie Road back in 2023 has been sentenced after pleading guilty, court records show.
Back on July 21, 2023, Lane County deputies responded to a report of a deceased woman in the area of Prairie Road to find Alisha Diane Rife, 45, of Junction City, had been struck and fatally wounded by a vehicle at about 11 p.m. on July 20. Deputies began a search for the vehicle and driver that had struck Rife, but on July 31 Troy Dean Erne, 55, of Eugene, turned himself in to detectives along with his vehicle…