Four teenagers charged with throwing a sandbag from an Ohio highway overpass that killed a Michigan man have been sentenced to a youth treatment facility program. The youth treatment center is a lockdown facility in Toledo. The program runs six months, but there is no set time to release. The average youth spends eight months there,” said Lori Olender, juvenile division deputy chief for the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office. Besides being ordered to the youth treatment facility, the teenagers were given four-year suspended sentences, placed on probation and ordered to perform 30 hours of community service. One was charged with murder and felonious assault and three were charged with involuntary manslaughter and vehicular vandalism, she said. All four pleaded guilty. The teen who pleaded guilty to murder was sentenced to the Department of Youth Services until he turns 21, while the teens who pleaded guilty to manslaughter were sentenced to three years in the Department of Youth Services. If the teens do not complete their treatment, than they will be subject to prison terms. Three of the teens were 14 when the incident happened and one was 13. Police say the boys, threw rocks and sandbags onto Interstate 75 near downtown Toledo in December. One sandbag smashed through a car windshield and hit a rider, 22-year-old Marquise Byrd, of Warren, Michigan. Byrd was left in critical condition and died three days later in the hospital.
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