Man Gets 20 Years in Drunk Driving Deaths
Posted/updated on: November 2, 2011 at 3:42 pm
TYLER — A Tyler man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the April 10 Tyler crash that killed Geneva Townsend, 88, and Jane Bohanon, 81. The two women were on their way home from church at the time. Joe Preston Rogers, 62, pleaded guilty to two counts of intoxication manslaughter with a deadly weapon on September 26. He will be eligible for parole once half his sentence has been served.
