LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person who admitted to driving drunk and inflicting a crash that killed a mom and her two youngsters was sentenced to jail for at least 16 years.
Darryl Smith, 36, admitted to police on Jan. 7, 2024, that he was consuming wine and cough syrup earlier than he crashed his truck into Rebecca Submit and her sons in Henderson, killing all three.
“I don’t even know you but I despise you,” Troy Quintanilla mentioned. “At the end of the day, death be with you and I hope you hang yourself with a sheet.”
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Quintanilla’s spouse Submit, 38 and sons Achilles Quintanilla, 6, and Leo Submit-Quintanilla, 5, have been killed close to Lake Mead and Grand Cadence.
Smith posted a bond and in February of 2023, was cited by Metro police for reckless driving and rushing, paperwork mentioned. He ended up again in jail with no bail in July when his alcohol-monitoring bracelet reported a “tamper event” and “alcohol was reported current throughout [the] tamper occasion,” information mentioned.
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In September, Smith agreed to a plea deal that eliminated one of many lethal DUI counts towards him.
Rebecca Submit, 38, and her two sons Achilles Quintanilla, 6, and Leo Submit-Quintanilla, 5. (Credit score: Quintanilla household pictures)
Decide Erika Mendoza sentenced him Tuesday from eight to twenty years on every of the 2 counts of DUI leading to demise. These will probably be served consecutively. He was additionally sentenced to 4 to 10 years on a reckless driving cost which he’ll serve concurrently.
8 Information Now Investigators obtained physique cam footage from Smith’s arrest in Feb. of 2023 for reckless driving. He was driving 52 mph in a 25 mph pace zone.
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In courtroom Tuesday, Smith mentioned the triple deadly DUI was an accident.
“I cannot apologize enough times to bring back your loved ones and be fully forgiven for what I’ve done,” Smith mentioned.
However the victims’ household rejected any notions it was.
“An accident is not going to a bar, and drinking too much, and not stopping on the breaks and killing a family of three,” Joseph Shotwell, Submit’s brother, mentioned.
Rebecca Submit’s oldest daughter Leighonna mentioned she does not perceive why his sentencing was so low.
“This isn’t his first time getting arrested for it. This is his third time, and on his third time, he took the lives of my three family members,” the 20-year-old mentioned. “[Smith] still gets to talk to his kids. He still gets to talk to his wife. My stepdad does not get that. He does not get to talk to his kids and his wife. You know what my dad does? He talks to them through the mausoleum.”
Smith’s lawyer Thomas Moskal mentioned in courtroom there have been a number of points with how Henderson police gathered proof on this case. Moskal accused the Henderson Police Division of failing to take a blood attract a “timely fashion” and executing the search warrant in a fashion inconsistent with the Nevada search warrant statute.
However somewhat than go to trial, Moskal mentioned Smith determined to take a plea deal.
Smith may also need to pay a $2000 positive on every depend and drive with an interlock system for 36 months on any car he owns after he paroles. He additionally has to pay $14,920 in restitution to victims of crime.
