Russell Edward Stephens will serve 10 years behind bars for the vehicular homicide of Brenda Boren. A man who was high on a combination of methamphetamine, methadone and Xanax will spend the next 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to charges that he killed a 68-year-old woman in a head-on car crash.
31-year-old Russell Edward Stephens, who in recent years has also faced theft and drug charges in Hamilton County, pleaded guilty to the vehicular homicide of Brenda Boren.
Boren, who was 68 at the time of the crash in April 2015, was killed when Stephens' car crossed the center line on Hixson Pike and hit her vehicle. She was sitting in the back seat when she was killed.
Criminal Court Judge Barry Steelman accepted Stephens' guilty plea on a count of vehicular homicide, a count of DUI and two counts of reckless aggravated assault.
Earlier this month, a Hamilton County grand jury issued a 10-count indictment against Stephens.