Michigan groom is sentenced to decades in prison for killing groomsman on wedding night

FLINT, Mich. — A man in Michigan who got married and then ran over his best friend that same day, killing him, after an alcohol-fueled argument was sentenced Monday to at least 30 years in prison.“The only thing I can do for the rest of my life is express my apology and remorse.

FLINT, Mich. — A man in Michigan who got married and then ran over his best friend that same day, killing him, after an alcohol-fueled argument was sentenced Monday to at least 30 years in prison.

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“The only thing I can do for the rest of my life is express my apology and remorse. ... I will forever be sorry,” James Shirah said in Genesee County court.

Shirah, 24, was driving when his vehicle struck Terry Taylor Jr. in Flint, about an hour’s drive northwest of Detroit, on Aug. 30, 2024. He and Savanah Collier were married earlier that day and the celebration had moved to a house.