User login
Recent posts
- Harmon jumps out to 1-0 start; Turner edged out
- Girls basketball recaps
- BPU to present budget next week
- Turner, Bonner basketball teams come together to fight cancer
- POLICE BEAT: KCKPD releases homicide identification
- New (or old) Kansan feature: Regional Headlines
- COURT BEAT: KCK man charged with firearm crime
- COURT BEAT: Man charged in KCK for transporting illegal aliens
- KCKCC loses first game in heartbreaking fashion
- COURT BEAT: KCK man sentenced to 30 years in methamphetamine trafficking
Recent comments
- Thanks for putting that up...
by Phil Thomas - You have a hard one for...
by D Thompson - I sure do...
From the...
by D Thompson - I would be curious to know...
by Phil Thomas - Imagine that. And 7 were...
by Michaelanne Duncan - Gold Finger...
by fred meyer - I too was against health care...
by Auric Finger - I'm interested in Health Care...
by John Altevogt - Not a chance on this green...
by Auric Finger - If I owned a business of any...
by Michaelanne Duncan
Connect With Us
- Join the Kansas City Kansan group on Facebook
- Follow us on Twitter
- Subscribe to our channels on YouTube: News and Sports
- Subscribe to our RSS feed
Who's new
POLICE BEAT: Basehor man faces four years in prison for DUI that killed teenager
Posted by Nick Sloan on November 6, 2009 - 1:39pm
Tagged in
A Basehor, Kan., man has been sentenced for four years in prison after killing a Kansas City, Kan., teenager while driving drunk.
Eric Snitz, 41, was sentenced by Wyandotte County Judge J. Dexter Burdette to four years in prison this afternoon. Snitz was driving drunk on Jan. 26, 2008, when he hit 17-year-old Christopher Brown's car.
Brown suffered head injuries and died in a hospital.
In August, Snitz pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter. He was previously convicted of driving drunk twice.
- Nick Sloan
- Login or register to post comments
- Login or register to post comments
Posted by Christy Smith-Poe on November 8, 2009 - 9:44pm
This makes me sick. I witnessed this horrible thing happen. My husband tried to cut Chris out of his seat belt. I tried to keep Mr. Snitz in his car at the scene. I watched this young mans parents grieve, and all of his friends. Four years? There is No justice any more. I pray for the Brown family. I am so sorry that your son lost his wonderful future for a man convicted twice of driving under the influence and going to prison for INVOLUNTARY manslaughter???? I am so sorry for everyone if this is the only justice that will be served.
- Login or register to post comments
Posted by S P on November 9, 2009 - 9:28am
The Brown family continues to be in my prayers. I too believe 4 years is an injustice, but now maybe the Brown family can get some closure and move on with their lives.
- Login or register to post comments
Posted by Michaelanne Duncan on November 9, 2009 - 9:40am
My prayers for out the the Brown family also. What is all the talk about cracking down on drunk drivers? Just talk? I am sorry, but there should be no involuntary manslaughter in a case like this. When he chose to get in his car and drive drunk he knew what could happen. And he had been convicted twice before for driving drunk?Come on, no justice was served here. I guess three strikes doens't count if you drink and drive. It just makes me sick.
Regional Headlines
- ESPN: Mangino out at KU
from ESPN - Opera singer opens new church in Bonner Springs
from The Bonner Springs Chieftain - Mohlers' enter court
from KMBC Channel 9 News - Kansas aiming to get more federal education dollars
from The Lawrence Journal-World - No word on Mangino's inevitable departure quite yet
from The Kansas City Star
Weather for Kansas City, KS

Current Conditions:
Fair, 22 F
Forecast:
Fri - AM Clouds/PM Sun. High: 35 Low: 15
Sat - Partly Cloudy. High: 33 Low: 20
Full Forecast at Yahoo! Weather
(provided by The Weather Channel)








