Man sentenced to 16 years in prison for hitting, killing person with a car in SE Portland

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – A 22-year-old man was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Tuesday for hitting and killing another man with a car in the Buckman neighborhood.

Shane McKeever, 22, was arrested on February 25 after court documents say he intentionally drove a car into 48-year-old David R. Bentley at 40 to 50 miles per hour.

Bentley was taken to a hospital and later died from his injuries.

Court documents say McKeever also hit several tents and tried to hit another person at a homeless camp near Southeast Belmont Street and Southeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard before ditching the car…

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