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He will be sentenced Jan. 8 for deaths of 2 airmenBy tom McLaughlinFlorida Freedom Newspapers315-4435 | tomm@nwldailynews.comMILTON — Robert Lynn Hill Jr. has pleaded no contest to a single count of leaving the scene of an accident with death.He faces “a substantial period of incarceration” when he is sentenced Jan. 8, the state attorney’s office in Pensacola said Wednesday.Two Hurlburt Field airmen died after they were hit by a pickup truck at about 7:30 p.m. Aug. 31 as theywere walking their dogs on Pawnee Drive near their home in Navarre.Daniel Lee Schoen, a 32-year-old technical sergeant, was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife, 31-year-old Staff Sgt. Erin Schoen, was taken to Baptist HospitalROBERTHILLin Pensacola, where she died the next day.Betweenthem,hadtheyfourchildren. Hill, 20,of Navarre, turnedhimself in the day afterthe crash.Hill originally was charged with two felony counts of leaving the scene of an accident involving death, but he accepted a “straight up plea to the single count, said Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille.Assistant State Attorney John Molchan, who is prosecuting the case, said he will seek “a lot of prison” for Hill. Molchan said he will ask for more than the 24- to 28-month state minimum guideline sentence for leaving the scene of a fatal accident.“I think this is one of those cases where the minimum guideline is not appropriate,” he said.
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