Man sentenced in death of KU student

Friday, August 14, 2009

A 26-year-old Johnson County man convicted of killing a KU student in February was sentenced Thursday.

Steven Kyle Cummins will serve 41 months, or a little less than 3 and a half years, in a Johnson County prison for the drunken-driving collision that killed Dimitri Mavridorakis, a 23-year-old business graduate student from St. Étienne, France. Cummins will then serve 36 months probation and DUI supervision.

Cummins’ Dodge Dakota hit Mavridorakis on Shawnee Mission Parkway at Interstate 35 in the early morning hours of Feb. 7. Mavridorakis was standing on the shoulder of the highway beside the car of a friend with whom he had driven into Kansas City. The car had somehow broken down or was experiencing engine trouble. Mavridorakis was declared dead at the scene.

Cummins was taken into custody the morning of Feb. 7 and charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter while under the influence of alcohol and one count of aggravated battery through reckless endangerment shortly after. He entered a plea agreement on both counts in June.

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