Michigan family left devastated after teen who killed their son in 100 mph crash avoids jail: Everything is dim

A heartbroken Michigan family was left in disbelief after the driver who killed their son in a 105-mph crash during his college winter break was given a light sentence that allows him to avoid jail time.Kiernan Tague, 18 — who was initially charged with second-degree murder for killing Flynn MacKrell in a deadly crash in November 2023 — had the charge reduced to manslaughter with a motor vehicle last year.Tague, who was 16 at the time of the crash, was charged with adult designation, meaning that the judge could sentence him as a juvenile, as an adult, or create a blended sentence, the Detroit Free Press reported.Judge Mark McClory opted to sentence the teen to serve probation at a Level 2 juvenile placement facility, which is an out-of-home residential facility, on Friday.His time at the facility will be determined by his progress, allowing him to be released on probation once he completes his treatment, according to the Detroit Free Press.However, if Tague is found to violate any term of his probation, he will be sentenced as an adult to 19-38 months to be served at the Wayne County Detention Facility.The light sentencing has left MacKrell’s family outraged with the justice system.“Do you know how much pain and energy and suffering it is to have no justice and still have no justice? I’ve spent the last year and a half, and I waited for that,” MacKrell’s heartbroken mother, Anne Vanker, told WDIV outside the courtroom Friday.As for Tague, Vanker said he has once again not been held “accountable” for his actions.“It’s a cunning, manipulative criminal individual who just once again was not held accountable for killing my son, so no, his fake tears are disgusting,” she said.His brother, Thaddeus MacKrell Jr., told the court before Tague’s sentencing that he was “robbed” of a brother.“I was robbed of seeing him graduate.I was robbed of being his best man.

I was robbed of meeting his children,” he said.His father, Thad Mackrell, told...