INDEPENDENCE, Mo. – A Mission Hills man who pleaded guilty to a deadly hit-and-run will be headed home from prison June 30.
Curtis Mertensmeyer has completed his shock therapy sentence and Jackson County Judge John Torrence ruled Friday he should be relased on or before June 30.
Mertensmeyer pleaded guilty to killing 25-year-old Daniel Riemann on Mother’s Day in 2008 in a hit-and-run accident. He was sentenced to five years in prison with 120 days of shock time.
Mertensmeyer, 20, admitted to drinking with friends before the accident happened at about 3 a. m. on Ward Parkway.
Riemann’s mother, Kelly Riemann, believes if Mertensmeyer had not left the scene of the accident and called for help, her son would still be alive.
