Biloxi man gets maximum sentence for hit and run that killed a pedestrian from Florida

A Biloxi man got the maximum sentence Tuesday after being convicted of felony leaving the scene of an accident that killed a Florida man in 2020. J...

April 27, 2023
2:44 AM

A Biloxi man got the maximum sentence Tuesday after being convicted of felony leaving the scene of an accident that killed a Florida man in 2020. Judge Keith Miller sentenced John David Cole, 49, to 20 years in prison, with 15 years to serve and five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and five years of post-release supervision. Cole was driving a blue Hyundai Elantra when he hit pedestrian Douglas Couey, of Jacksonville, Florida. The crash happened on Mississippi 609 at Big Ridge Road near St.

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