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Omaha man gets 11-to-16 years prison in store clerk’s death

Dirk Blume

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man has been sentenced to 11 to 16 years in prison for running down and killing a convenience store clerk after closing for the night.

Dirk Blume was sentenced Monday. The 46-year-old former real estate agent had pleaded no contest in October to manslaughter.

Blume was charged in the Jan. 7 death of 40-year-old Seth Hansen in northwest Omaha.

Prosecutors say Blume became angry at Hansen after the clerk refused to sell him chewing tobacco after the store closed for the night. Blume ran over Hansen with his truck in the store’s parking lot.

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