KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A suburban Kansas City, Mo., man has been ordered to spend two decades in prison for causing a deadly 2014 car wreck while fleeing police.
Twenty-six-year-old Drew Ryland of Independence was sentenced Thursday in Jackson County. He was convicted him in March of second-degree murder, resisting arrest, five counts of armed criminal action and three counts of second-degree assault.
The murder charge was a based on the fact that the 28-year-old victim, Michael Hernandez, died as the result of Ryland’s ...