DUI death brings 5-year term

TAVARES -- A judge Monday sentenced a federal corrections officer to five years in state prison for DUI-manslaughter in the death last year of a bicycle rider in Leesburg.

Before learning his punishment, Purdie K. Burkes tearfully pleaded with the judge for mercy and leniency. He apologized to Michal Kathleen McPherson's family and described the incident as an accident."