(KAIR)--A woman, found guilty last year of the second degree murder of a teenage girl in Leavenworth, is going to prison.

Amber Alexander Wednesday was sentenced in Leavenworth County District Court to nearly 10-years of incarceration in connection with the August 7, 2021 death of 16-year-old Miranda Lynch, who was struck by Alexander’s Subaru Outback at Pottawattamie and 4th Streets, in Leavenworth. Alexander was driving after leaving a Lansing bar around 2:00 that morning.

According to a release from Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson, Alexander was found guilty by a Leavenworth County Jury on December 30 last year of second degree murder, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury or death, and interference with law enforcement-tampering with evidence.

Alexander, following the deadly hit and run, reported in an insurance claim that her Subaru had been involved in an accident in her apartment parking lot during the night, which lead to front-end damage. Thompson’s release notes that “later the same day she drove her Subaru off the road into a wooded area causing more front-end damage and she made a second insurance claim. The State alleged the actions were an attempt to hide the front-end damage to her vehicle from striking and killing Lynch.  Leavenworth Police Department was able to trace the vehicle to Alexander due to vehicle parts left at the scene of the fatal hit and run.”

Alexander’s 9-year-nine-month prison sentence was lower than the State’s request made at sentencing that she spend 13-years-10-months behind bars.