PAW PAW, Mich. — Logan Brown, 31, will spend the next 7–15 years in prison for hitting and killing a Van Buren County Road Commission member, Rene Rangel.
The sentence came down in a Van Buren County courtroom on Tuesday, April 15. It was a moment more than a year in the making.
Rangel was hit and killed on March 3, 2023. Rangel was doing his job, holding a stop sign during road work in Lawrence, Michigan, when Brown hit him with his truck, killing him.
Rangel’s family said in victim impact statements Monday that nothing can replace the hole in their hearts after losing him.
“My life has been turned upside down. I lost the love of my life, my best friend,” Stacey Hollenbeck, Rangel’s long-time fiance, said in a victim impact statement.
“I didn’t know when Rene said, ‘Bye, Stacy, love you’ that Friday morning, March 3, that would be the last I …