Photos: Lane Wyatt sentenced to 18 years for DUI death of Citari Townes-Sweatt

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Jamaesha Sweatt hugs Deborah Wyatt in an Anchorage courtroom on Friday, December 19, 2014 after Wyatt's son Lane was sentenced for the June 30, 2013 drunk-driving death of Sweatt's sister Citari Townes-Sweatt. Lane Wyatt, 24, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Lane Douglas Wyatt, 24, was sentenced to nearly 18 years in prison on Friday for killing 20-year-old Citari Townes-Sweatt in a drunken-driving accident last year.

Townes-Sweatt died June 30, 2013, after Wyatt, an Airman 1st Class from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, ran a red light at an East Anchorage intersection and hit the car she was driving.

Wyatt entered guilty pleas to second-degree murder, first-degree assault and drunk driving and could have received up to 30 years. He has no prior criminal record in Alaska.

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