GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (via WOOD TV 8) — Under a plea deal, a repeat drunken driver who hit and killed a Grand Rapids grandmother could be ordered to 2.5 to just under five years in prison.
In Kent County Circuit Court Thursday afternoon, 51-year-old James Michael Williams pleaded guilty to operating while intoxicated causing death
Williams was driving east on Knapp Street in Grand Rapids Township around 1 a.m. Dec. 22, 2016, when he ran a red light at the East Beltline and plowed into a vehicle driven by Judy Besemer. Besemer, a 62-year-old grandmother of seven, died hours later at the hospital.
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