The man convicted and sentenced to prison in a crash that killed a Massachusetts State Trooper has been released from prison.
The Department of Corrections says David Njuguna was released Friday morning.
Njuguna had been sentenced in 2019 to 5-7 years in prison for a 2016 crash that killed Trooper Thomas Clardy.
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Njuguna had spent three years in custody during the legal proceedings.
David Njuguna was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Clardy’s death.
Prosecutors said the 33-year-old Webster man was speeding and high on marijuana when he struck Clardy’s stopped cruiser on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Charlton in 2016.
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