Mesa teacher sentenced for involvement in fatal crash [Video]

CHANDLER, Ariz. — A Mesa Public Schools special education teacher was sentenced to three years probation and six months of house arrest after causing a crash that killed a 9-year-old boy.

Kacie Perry, 43, pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of turning left and causing a fatal crash near the intersections of Price and Ray Roads in Chandler on Nov. 11, 2023.

Ilai Petersen and his father, Aaron Petersen, were waiting to cross the street when Perry turned left on a yellow light. She clipped the rear end of another car and sent it spinning into the Petersens.

Perry told the court she’s revisited that moment thousands of times since the crash.

“I wish there was a better explanation but I simply didn’t see the other car,” Perry said.

Ilai Petersen died from his injuries. 

“I am so, so deeply …