A Marshfield man convicted of second-degree homicide for driving drunk and excessive when he struck one other automobile in Pembroke, killing a 13-year-old lady and severely injuring two others, has been sentenced to life in jail.
The sentence for Gregory Goodsell, 36, contains the opportunity of parole after 20 years and comes after a Plymouth Superior Courtroom Jury convicted him final week of second-degree homicide, motorcar manslaughter whereas working underneath the affect, leaving the scene of property harm and two counts of working underneath the affect inflicting critical bodily damage.
Goodsell will serve his life sentence for the homicide cost on the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Heart. The opposite offenses carry lesser sentences.
“I shamefully take responsibility for what happened,” Goodsell mentioned throughout an emotional sentencing at Plymouth Superior Courtroom on Thursday.
Goodsell, on the way in which dwelling from a Christmas get together the morning of Dec. 29, 2019, crashed the truck he had been driving right into a Subaru on Route 139 in Pembroke, killing 13-year-old Claire Zisserson.
The 2 others within the Subaru, Claire’s 51-year-old mom Elizabeth Zisserson and 13-year-old buddy Kendall Zemotel suffered what the Plymouth County District Lawyer’s Workplace described as “catastrophic injuries.”
“I’m so (expletive) up … I know I shouldn’t have been driving … I can’t believe I did this … I drank way too much, I’m so sorry,” Goodsell advised law enforcement officials on the scene of the deadly crash round 7 that morning.
On the scene, first responders discovered a white Subaru with intensive front-end harm and a white Ford business pickup truck throughout the way in which which was flipped and had heavy passenger-side harm.
An investigation revealed that Goodsell had attended an organization get together after which an after-party at a house earlier than getting behind the wheel of his “Hi-Way Safety Systems, Inc.” firm truck and promptly struck a tree, breaking his passenger-side headlight.
Co-workers mentioned that that they had tried to stop Goodsell from driving however that he ignored them, the Herald reported on the time.
Investigators decided that when he broadsided Zisserson’s Subaru after rushing by means of a crimson mild at 67 mph, he had a blood alcohol content material of 0.266, effectively in extra of the 0.08 restrict, and was excessive on cocaine. Police discovered a bottle of whiskey, a beer can, two nip bottles, marijuana and a pipe contained in the truck following the crash.
“Nobody should ever have to attempt to live through the pain that I’ve caused to all these people through my careless, destructive behavior,” Goodsell mentioned Thursday, studying from a ready assertion. “If I could go back to that day and die, instead of Claire, I would in a heartbeat.”
“The constant nightmares, never being able to sleep because of what I did that morning, that is something that I will carry with me for the remainder of my life,” he added. “Sorry is an understatement. I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart.”
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