Criminal Vehicular Homicide in MN
May be sentenced to Not More
Than 10 Years in Prison
or to Payment of a Fine of
Not More Than $20,000
or Both
Star Tribune
By Anthony Lonetree
November 3, 2011
When their paths crossed on St. Paul's East Side in July, Roger Tetu, 78, was a "man of honor" beloved by his Dayton's Bluff community, while Gregory J. Larsin, 21, was a felon whose life was "out of control," a judge said Thursday.
Larsin, driving with a suspended license, passed cars that were waiting for Tetu to cross Earl Street on July 26, and struck and killed him.
For three days, Larsin was on the run, trying to persuade a woman from whom he bought the car to report it stolen. But eventually he surrendered to police. On Thursday, he was sentenced to 7 1/3 years in prison for one count of criminal vehicular homicide.
"You are and continue to be a danger to the community," Ramsey County District Judge Robyn Millenacker said.
Tetu, in contrast, was an iconic patriarch, "a pillar of the community," said prosecutor Margaret Galvin.
She read to the court a victim impact statement written by a daughter, Nancy Tetu, who gave up trying to read it herself after she shook with emotion.
For 56 years, Roger Tetu lived in a house near where he died. Even in his late 70s, his daughter wrote, he shoveled snow for his neighbors, never complaining. He was crossing the street to pick up litter when he was hit and killed, friends and family said. Continue Reading
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