Man sentenced for manslaughter

Day Rider sentenced to eight years in prison for death of his spouse

A30-year-old man who killed his spouse in a violent attack in 2015 has been handed an eight-year prison sentence.

Allen Day Rider, who was found guilty of manslaughter earlier this year, was handed the term Wednesday in provincial court. He will serve seven years and a month, after being granted 11 months of time already served.

Following Day Rider’s week-long trial earlier this year, Judge Eric Peterson found Day Rider guilty of manslaughter and said he killed 24-year-old Brittany Medicine Crane after he beat her May 21, 2015, following a drunken birthday party in Standoff.

Medicine Crane died of multiple blunt-force injuries to her head, neck, torso and extremities, but it was the injuries to her heart, liver and a kidney that most likely led to her death, court was told during the trial. Bleeding from the heart into her body cavity alone would likely have killed her within an hour, Peterson said.

Court was also told Medicine Crane and Day Rider were seen arguing and fighting several times May 20 and May 21, 2015, during a drunken birthday party for the couple’s twoyear old daughter. Both had been drinking and consuming drugs with other party goers, and at one point they were embroiled in a physical confrontation on the floor where Day Rider was seen choking Medicine Crane.

One of Medicine Crane’s injuries was a broken bone in her neck, likely caused by strangulation.