PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A man who was intoxicated and erratically driving with gunshot wounds was sentenced to prison earlier in October for his role in a Southeast Portland crash that killed an 11-year-old boy, according to court documents.
The driver, now-31-year-old Duprie Darien Smith, was sentenced Oct. 10 to more than a year-and-a-half in prison with three years of post-prison supervision for criminally negligent homicide. Smith also had his driver’s license revoked.
The case goes back to July 8, 2023, around 10:20 p.m. when Portland police responded to a crash on SE 102nd Avenue and SE Washington St., where an SUV driven by Smith T-boned a sedan.
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Court documents state that the SUV crashed into the sedan’s passenger side, causing the sedan to “rebound off a light pole.”…