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Edris Ghani, a man who drove drunk and crashed into a woman’s car, has been given a prison term of as much as ten years. The 21-year-old woman, who died in the crash, had visited a Las Vegas casino with her mother to play blackjack and other casino games.
The testimony of Cynthia Konarski, the mother of 21-year-old Christina Konarski who died in the crash, led to this verdict. People were in tears when they heard Cynthia’s story, about how she had gone to the casino with her daughter to celebrate the latter’s birthday and how her life was shattered because of Ghani’s drunken driving, which killed her daughter and left her with a paralyzed arm.
Cynthia said that it was her daughter’s first experience at the Las Vegas casinos and that she “smiled every time she was carded at the blackjack table.”
The mother and daughter left MGM Grand at 4:00 a.m., the same time when Ghani got behind the wheel drunk to drive to his hotel. He was going at 70 mph along Tropicana Avenue when he crashed into their car and rammed it against a light pole.
Cynthia said that Ghani should have got a harsher sentence.
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