Iraq war veteran to serve 18 months for DUI death
Richmond Times-Dispatch
BY MARK BOWES
January 6, 2014
An Iraq war veteran was sentenced today to serve 1½ years in prison for killing his best friend in an alcohol-related crash last summer on Branders Bridge Road in Chesterfield County.
Substitute Judge Walter W. Stout III of Chesterfield Circuit Court sentenced Aaron B. Christy, 30 – a Marine infantryman who served two tours in Iraq – to five years in prison with three years and six months suspended for involuntary manslaughter in the June 8 death of Andrew N. Buhrman, 29.
Although the maximum punishment for manslaughter is 10 years, state sentencing guidelines based on Christy’s record and social history called for an active prison term of 10 months on the low end and 2 years and 10 months on the high end.
Christy suffers from post traumatic stress syndrome related to his military service, along with “some other issues that he’s working through apart from alcohol abuse, said Chesterfield Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert J. Fierro Jr., who prosecuted the case.
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