Alliance man goes to prison on vehicular-homicide charge

YOUNGSTOWN — An Alliance man will be spending the next three years behind bars after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors over a 2009 automobile accident that killed his passenger.

Jesse Hill, 22, of Alliance pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated-vehicular homicide in a plea agreement before Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. The judge also suspended his license for life.

According to the indictment, Hill was under “the influence of alcohol ... and a drug of abuse” at the time of a Nov. 2 crash in Smith Township that killed passenger Charles Shreve, 17, also of Alliance.