Drunken Driver Sentenced in Death of Toddler from Last Spring

ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 4, 2026) – A 57-year-old Martin man has begun a multi-year prison sentence for the death of an eight-month-old girl near a lake on the Allegan/Van Buren county line last spring.

Terry Lee Boss had pleaded no contest to a second-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors that had counts of operating while intoxicated causing death, and reckless driving causing death, dropped. Judge Emily Jipp in 48th Circuit Court on Monday sentenced him to at least 13 and a half years behind bars, at the request of the victim’s family, on a charge that could have placed Boss in prison for life…

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