LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A judge sentenced the man who drove impaired and killed a 12-year-old walking to school to at least seven years in prison Monday morning.
Oh’Ryan Brooks, 27, was driving impaired on Oct. 3 near Owens Avenue and 21st Street, where he hit and killed Cristofer Suarez, 12, before driving away.
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In October, Brooks told police he had just returned from taking two children to school and was on his way to pick up the next group of kids, as he helped a woman who had eight kids each day with school drop-off, according to an arrest report.
He also told officers he had inhaled THC from a vape pen between the hours of 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. as he was getting the children ready and again shortly before the officer arrived at the complex, because “he knew he was going to jail,” according to the report…