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Woman sentenced for crash that killed two children in Newport News 
06:20 PM EDT on Friday, May 9, 2008
NEWPORT NEWS – A woman driving a car that crashed on I-64 last year, killing her young daughter and nephew, was sentenced Friday to three and a half years in prison.
Shameeka Martin was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the June 2007 crash.
Martin was speeding on the off-ramp near Jefferson Avenue, ran off the road, and flipped the car, according to Virginia State Police.
The crash threw four children from the car. Her two-month-old daughter Daraje Brown and eight-year-old nephew Tazia Gibbs died at the scene.
Martin, her 13-year-old brother, Danta Gee, and her 20-month-old daughter, Finya Brown, were injured.
None of the children was restrained or in car seats.
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