Galesburg Woman Gets 9 Years In Hit-and-run

A Galesburg woman was sentenced to nine years in prison Wednesday in the hit-and-run death of a Knox College student.Lakeesha D. Smith, 34, pleaded guilty in August in Knox County Circuit Court to reckless homicide and leaving the scene of an accident. Those charges followed the Oct. 28, 2012, death of 18-year-old Tundun Lawani.

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