LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - It’s been more than four years since a Liberty County family heard their loved one’s voice. Monday, they learned the woman responsible for his death will spend around the same amount of time behind bars.

“That smile just did something to you. If you didn’t know him, you would want to know him,” said Tarius’s mother and Father, Melvis and Curtis.

That’s how family members remember 39-year-old Tarius O’Neal Allen . Nearly four and a half years ago, his light was tragically extinguished.

Allen was just two miles from home—driving along Highway 84 near Barrett Cemetery Road— when he was hit and killed by 35-year-old Megan Victoria Jacobs, who was driving under the influence of alcohol and other substances.

Allen was later transported to Liberty Regional Medi

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