8-Year Sentence for Wrong-Way Drunk Driver Dress

By: Robert Price A wrong-way drunk driver who killed a veteran is headed to prison for 8 years. Wednesday the 31-year-old promo model apologized to the victim's family for the first time since that deadly wreck back in 2012. "I'm sorry that I have unfairly made you a widow and a single mom," Shauna Ripley said on the stand. "I wish to spend the rest of my life trying to make it right and prove that that's not who I am." Ripley faced up to fifteen years in prison after pleading no contest to intoxication manslaughter. Prosecutors say tests show Ripley had drugs in her system and a blood-alcohol level four times the legal limit when she crashed into 31-year-old Jorge Badillo, Junior. It was around 4:30 in the morning on October 26th, 2012. Badillo was headed east down Highway 151, on his way to work at Boeing, when Ripley's minivan slammed into him head-on near the Callaghan exit. Ripley was wearing elaborate zombie makeup since she'd just left a Halloween party at a bar on North Saint Mary's where she was working as a promo girl. "Eight-year sentence. It could be one year, eight years, 100 years," said the victim's father, Jorge Badillo, Sr. "It doesn't bring my son back. Everybody knows that drinking and driving is wrong, but people keep doing it." Ripley will get credit for time served and could be eligible for parole in four years. She also faces several more surgeries, including the possibility of having her right foot amputated.