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A 25-year-old man who ran down and killed the owner of a truck that he had stolen from a Red Deer home has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison.

Alexander Michael Talbot was originally charged with manslaughter in connection to the death of Dawson Cramer last March.

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Cramer was killed when he was crushed between his own truck and another vehicle in an alley behind his home.

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Talbot pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death in January.

In court on Monday, Alberta Justice said with credit for time-served, Talbot has just over two years left in his sentence.

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