Morgan County man sentenced for 2022 deadly crash

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Morgan County man who entered an Alford plea in April after a deadly crash was sentenced on Monday.

Larry Lunnin Sr., 43, was sentenced to nine years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for second-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of child abduction.

Court records show that Lunnin was sentenced to three years for each charge, all counts running consecutively to each other.

Lunnin was charged in 2022 after he was driving a jeep when it crashed in Morgan County, resulting in the death of his 3-year-old son. He had told investigaors he took his two sons from Nebraska between January-March 2022 and were traveling until he bought property in Rocky Mount that summer.

Lunnin entered an Alford plea in April on three counts. Prosecutors dropped charges of second-degree murder, driving on the wrong side of the road and an infraction for not properly securing a child into a car seat.

Lunnin and a 7-year-old boy were also hurt in crash, according to troopers.