Joseph Paul

Journal & Courier

A Lafayette woman was sentenced Wednesday for her role in a crash that killed a Purdue University staffer.

Stephanie Shrock, 32, received a six-year sentence on one charge of causing death when operating a vehicle with a controlled substance in the blood, according to a sentencing order provided by the Boone County Prosecutor's Office.

Shrock will spend 19 days in the Indiana Department of Correction, while the remaining prison time will be suspended and spent on supervised probation, the order states.

One remaining felony and four misdemeanor charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement in March, according to online court records.

Shrock was charged in November after investigators found THC — marijuana's psychoactive ingredient — in her system after an Aug. 18 crash near Lebanon that killed 45-year-old Jacquelin Harp.

Harp was an administrative assistant in Purdue University’s Information Technology Department, Purdue spokesman Jim Bush confirmed last year.

Shrock was reportedly traveling south on U.S. 52 when she reached for a cup of coffee and accidentally crossed the median, striking another vehicle head-on.

The crash was one of several accidents last year on U.S. 52 after the stretch of highway was designated a detour route for Interstate 65 construction.

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