Sentenced: Judge sends Duece Cleghorn to prison for 16 years in fatal hit-and-run crash

Duece Cleghorn



MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee County judge sentenced 21-year-old Duece Cleghorn on Wednesday, September 16th to 16 years in prison and another 11 years of extended supervision.

Cleghorn pleaded guilty in July to one count of hit-and-run involving death and one count of hit-and-run involving great bodily harm. This, in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed Rio Washington and left Washington’s wife and young son injured.

That fatal wreck happened at 18th and Atkinson on May 30th. Officials say Cleghorn was in a Plymouth sedan traveling northbound on 18th Street at a high rate of speed when the vehicle went through a stop sign at Atkinson. The vehicle struck a Pontiac sedan — which was completing a left turn from 18th to go east on Atkinson.

The following charges were dismissed as part of Cleghorn's plea deal back in July: