#news Man who k*lled a Fire Captain hours after his fifth son was born gets no jail time and was issued $535 in fees.
Rodney Earl Bremby II drove a black Dodge Durango at 103 mph into the back of Marvin Taylor III’s stopped minivan at a red light in Austin, Texas, k*lling the off-duty father of five hours after his newest son was born.
An Austin police officer watched it happen. Bremby pleaded guilty and received 10 years of probation, 403 hours of community service, and $535 in fees.
The incident happened on Mother’s Day, May 11, 2025.
Taylor, then 45, sat alone in his blue Toyota Sienna at a red light. He had just left an Austin hospital after the birth of his fifth child and was driving toward the Copperas Cove area to pick up his other four sons so they could meet their new brother.
An Austin Police Department officer approaching the same light heard engine noise from a speeding vehicle.
The officer saw Bremby’s black Dodge Durango pass in the center lane, then veered into the far-right lane and hit the rear driver’s side of Taylor’s Sienna.
The impact threw the van 150 feet into a grassy median.
Taylor was pinned inside and pronounced de*d at the scene. The officer tried to help him immediately.
Vehicle data showed that the Durango was traveling 93 mph about five seconds before impact and 103 mph at the moment of the crash.
Bremby, then 34, got out of his vehicle. The officer noted bloodshot, glassy eyes, slurred speech, the smell of alcohol, swaying, staggering, and disorientation.
Bremby told officers he had not been drinking; however, he failed field sobriety tests.
He was arrested for intoxication manslaughter, a second-degree felony that carries 2 to 20 years in prison.
However, Bremby entered plea deal in Travis County before Democrat Judge Brad Urrutia, who sentenced him to 10 years of probation with conditions that included 403 hours of community service.
Do you think probation is the right sentence when a driver ki*ls a father of five while driving at more than 100 mph while drunk, or should the sentence have included prison time?
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