Article: Iraq veteran seeks lighter sentence in fatal crash: Attorney says driver suffered stress disorder at time of wreck.

Byline: Frederick Melo

Jun. 21--After Anthony Joseph Klecker returned home from the front lines of the Iraq war, his family found him one night in his father's bedroom closet, hiding. Klecker wasn't sure from what.

Never an avid drinker before the war, his alcoholism suddenly spiraled.

And on Oct. 28, Klecker's drinking cost a young girl her life. Driving drunk, he hit a concrete lane barrier on Interstate 494 in Inver Grove Heights, jackknifing the slab into the path of an oncoming car.

Deanna Marie Casey, a 16-year-old cheerleader at Simley High School, was severely injured by the barricade and killed in a chain-reaction crash with ...

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