A Vermont man was sentenced Monday for crimes a Superior Court judge called “horrific,” following a conviction in the state’s first-ever quintuple murder trial. In May, a jury found Steven Bourgoin guilty of intentionally driving the wrong way on Interstate 89 in a fit of rage, then crashing into a car full of teenagers heading home from a concert, killing. missing Aug 24, 2019
His loss a wound that will never heal, Sue Hale, the mother of Liam Hale, said of her son during Monday s sentencing hearing for Bourgoin, 38.
Chittenden County prosecutors overcame an insanity defense in May to secure five murder convictions in the teens deaths, with a jury finding Bourgoin got on the highway going the wrong way speeding, then turning suddenly to crash into the kids car. She was my everything, Bella Harris, Mary Harris’s sister, said at Monday s hearing. She was my best friend. I m not sure if anything compares to the pain and heartbreak and devastation of losing a child, observed Colleen Ovelman, the mother of Eli Brookens, who also spoke at the hearing.
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FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file pool photo, Steven Bourgoin watches during his murder trial in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington, Vt. Bourgoin, who was was convicted in May of murder in the deaths of five teenagers killed on an interstate highway in a wrong-way crash, is seeking a new trial. Attorneys for Bourgoin acknowledged he caused the October 2016 crash but said he was insane at the time. (Glenn Russell/VTDigger.org via AP, Pool, File) Glenn Russell
The family of Mary Harris, who was killed along with four other teens in 2016 when Steven Bourgoin collided with her car, reacts as a jury pronounced Bourgoin guilty at Vermont Superior Court in Burlington, Vt., on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. The jury found Bourgoin guilty of murder charges in the October 2016 deaths of five teenagers, caused when he drove the wrong way on an interstate highway. He faces 20-years to life in prison on each count. (Ryan Mercer/Th
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