North Carolina: driver cut through gas station and back out onto road to short-cut traffic and wiped out motorcycle and killed biker; now its slammer time!

From Winston-Salem Journal
Kenneth Smith spent years mentoring young men who had drinking problems.
Smith, 55, had overcome a drinking problem he had as a youth and was an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
And he was generous, his mother, Patti Rae Smith-Butterfield, said Wednesday in Forsyth Superior Court. He took in stray animals and was helping an Iraq War veteran get back on his feet.
All that ended on Dec. 2, 2010, when Smith was killed after his motorcycle was struck by Christopher Sheffield, who had been drinking before getting behind the wheel of his Jeep.
“My son didn’t come home that night of Dec. 2, and he will never be coming home,” Smith-Butterfield said.
Sheffield, 26, of 4013 Loch Lorien Road in Kernersville, pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony death by …..MORE

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