STERLING HEIGHTS – A man involved in a Sterling Heights crash that resulted in the death of a teenage boy has been sentenced to decades behind bars.
The crash happened July 3, 2021. Police 17-year-old Patryk Koziol, 17, was driving west on 18 Mile Road when he was struck by a northbound vehicle in the intersection with Van Dyke Avenue. He was rushed to the Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Clinton Township, where he died.
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The driver of the northbound vehicle, 41-year-old Robert Zbikowski, was charged with and later convicted of second-degree murder and operating while impaired causing death.
Zbikowski was sentenced Thursday, Aug. 1, to 20-60 years in jail.