A woman charged with the murder of a firefighter after crashing into him on the Schuylkill Expressway in 2021 has been sentenced to 12 to 24 years in prison.
Jacquelyn Walker of Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey was sentenced Thursday.
"The judge said a number of things that I think were important about protecting the protectors," Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said.
Authorities charged Walker with third-degree murder in connection with the crash that killed 48-year-old firefighter Thomas Royds and wounded three other first responders.
Royds was a firefighter with Belmont Hills Fire Company and was responding to an emergency call concerning a crash around 3:15 a.m. on July 24, 2021, in the westbound lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway near Waverly Road.