On February 8, 2024, the Honorable Matthew Wilson, presiding Circuit Judge of the 2nd Judicial Circuit, sentenced Kimberly D. Hickman to 10 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections on the class B felony of driving while intoxicated resulting in the death of another, and 5 years on a class D felony of possession of a controlled substances, those sentences to run consecutive.  The State, by Prosecuting Attorney, Chelsea Fellinger, filed the aforementioned charges against Hickman following an investigation conducted by the Lewis County Sheriff's Office and Missouri State Highway Patrol into a vehicle versus pedestrian traffic fatality on August 11, 2022, wherein Hickman was determined to have struck a male juvenile child with a vehicle she was operating in an intoxicated condition; further investigation yielded that Hickman was also in possession of cocaine.  On December 7, 2023, Hickman pled guilty as charged.  At sentencing, Fellinger sought the Court impose upon Hickman the combined maximum sentence of 22 years.