Jesse Steinmetz sentenced to 18 months in prison in hit-and-run case

MILWAUKEE -- Jesse Steinmetz, a man convicted of running over a woman laying in the road, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and five years of extended supervision. 45-year-old West Allis resident Mary Moore was killed, and her son was killed hours later in a separate car crash.

Steinmetz was originally charged with hit-and-run involving death, but pleaded no contest to a lesser charge -- negligent operation of a vehicle. 

Steinmetz claimed he thought he hit an animal.

A search warrant obtained by FOX6 News says Moore was seeing arguing with 43-year-old Kerry Olson at a nearby bar. Olson is the father of two of Moore’s children, including 22-year-old Thomas Olson, who died hours after his mother while in a car racing to the hospital after learning about his mother’s accident, and believing she was taken to the hospital, injured.

The search warrant says Moore and her ex-boyfriend left Capt’n and Nick’s bar together.

When police found Steinmetz’s car, they found noticeable damage to the bumper, white fibers at the damaged area and human hair on the rear driver’s side brake light.

FOX6 News has learned Moore and Olson have a violent history that dates back to well before the bar. In 1994, Moore asked for a restraining order against Olson after allegedly being grabbed by both arms and head butted, telling the courts that Olson, in the past, knocked her teeth out.

Moore eventually dropped the restraining order.

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