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In the end, Kosal was sentenced to three to 15 years in prison for a deadly drunken driving crash this past summer in Redford Township, Mich., that left Zirker, 31, dead and his fiancee, Johnson, also 31, severely injured. Kosal had pleaded guilty to operating under the influence causing death.

Zirker’s mother, Rathel Fizer, said she would have preferred that Kosal not go to jail so that she could help support the family she destroyed, since Johnson is now a single mother of five children.

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“I want her to stay out and help support my grandchildren because they don’t have a father to take care of them,” Fizer said. “If she goes to prison or jail, I’m taking care of her. I don’t want her to mail a check. I want her to hand-deliver it to them so she can see the faces that she destroyed.”

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