Woman out of Prison in School Bus Crash That Killed 3 Kids

ROCHESTER, Ind.—A woman convicted in a 2018 crash that killed three siblings who were crossing a rural northern Indiana highway to board a school bus was released from prison Wednesday, after serving just over two years. Alyssa Shepherd, 27, was released from the Rockville Correctional Facility, Fulton County Prosecutor Michael Marrs told WNDU-TV. She now faces about three years of home detention with a GPS-monitoring ankle bracelet, followed by three years of probation, he said. Shepherd was sentenced to four years in prison in December 2019 after being convicted on three counts of reckless homicide in connection with the pickup truck crash that killed 9-year-old Alivia Stahl and the girl’s 6-year-old twin half brothers, Xzavier and Mason Ingle. A fourth child, Maverik Lowe, was seriously injured and had to undergo more than 20 surgeries. Based on Indiana’s time served credit rules, Shepherd was slated to be incarcerated until September 2022, …

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