COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A Fremont, Indiana man entered a no contest plea on Tuesday in Branch County Circuit Court to a charge of O.W.I. Causing Death in connection with a Algansee Township crash in June of 2019 which took the lives of three children as well as a unborn child.
23-year-old Tyler Frye entered into a plea agreement that was worked out by Prosecutor Zach Stempien and defense attorney Fred Taylor which calls for Frye to get a prison sentence of between 42 months and 15 years.
In exchange for Frye’s plea, all other charges will be dismissed by prosecutors. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for June 30.
Taylor filed a pair of suppression requests surrounding Frye’s blood draw by police claiming there was a lack of valid consent but those requests were denied. The case was bound over to Branch County Circuit Court in September of 2019 following a two-and-a-half hour preliminary examination.
Michigan State Police said at the time that 6-year-old Lillian Graber, 4-year-old Moses Graber and 2-year-old Jacob Graber died after a pickup truck driven by Frye hit the back of their Amish horse-drawn carriage on Kelley Road south of Lester Road.
The mother of the fatal victims was pregnant and lost her baby. She along with another child were seriously injured.
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