Former WWE star Tammy “Sunny” Sytch was sentenced in a Florida court on Monday to 17 years in prison for a 2022 car crash that claimed the life of a 75-year-old man.
Sytch had pleaded no contests in August to charges stemming from a crash in March 2022 thඣat killed Julian LaFrancis Lasseter.
The foꦕrmer wrestler and manager was alleged to have a blood alcohol content three and half times the legal limit, 𝓰.
The 50-year-old🧸 Sytch’s sentence includes eight years of probatioꩵn after the completion of her prison term.
Her driver’s license has been permanently revoked as well, &nb﷽sp;
The sentence had been handed down just after 3 p.m. in a Volus🐲ia County courtroom following a hearing that lasted several hours.
During the hearing, Sytch did address the courtroom and at one poin🌳t b꧂roke down in tears as she apologized for her actions.
“I know my words are not enough. But please know I think about you every day,” Sytch said while looking back at the victim’s family, . “Every second of every day, and I will do whatever I can to make the changes I need to make sure this never happens again. No one should have to go through this and please know that every single second of every day since the crash, I wish I could change places with him.”
Sytch had be🃏en possibly facing up to 26 years behind bars for the crash that caused the ꧃death of Lasseter.
She was charged with a number of charges that included DUI causing death, causing death while ope🍸rating a motor vehicle with a suspended or revoked driver’s license, four counts of DUI causing injury to a person and three counts of DUI causing damage to property.
Sytch had crashed into Lasseter, who had been stopped at a red light in the 100 bl🗹ock of North Yonge Street in Ormond Beach.
His car was pushed into another vehicle.
Lasseter died of his injuries.
“It changed everything to find out that my dad, our rock, was no longer with us,” said Whitney Lasseter Hill, Lasseter’s daughter, . “He was my world. He was the most positive person. He loved life. And he was a man of God. He was my biggest cheerleader.”
Sytch had been arrested on at least six previous occasions relating to DWI charges a💝nd earlier this year she had been accuse♕d of threatening to kill her partner with a pair of scissors.
