Milwaukee man sentenced to 4 years in fatal hit-and-run crash

A Milwaukee man who killed a pedestrian in a motorized wheelchair during a March hit-and-run crash was sentenced to four years in prison Friday. 

Marcellous D. Tally-Clayborne, 23, was convicted in the crash that killed Denice J. Fells March 4, according to court documents. Tally-Clayborne pleaded guilty June 28 to felony counts of operating while revoked causing death and hit-and-run. 

Milwaukee police said in March the crash occurred on a Saturday evening at the intersection of N. 17th and W. Vliet streets when Tally-Clayborne ran a red light while driving eastbound on Vliet. He struck a southbound van, according to the criminal complaint. 

Fells was crossing 17th St. after having just gotten off an eastbound Milwaukee County Transit System bus. She stopped in the median because the east-west traffic light turned red, and she was struck by one of the vehicles in the Tally-Clayborne crash. Tally-Clayborne fled on foot. 

Tally-Clayborne will serve four years in prison, after which he'll be on three years of extended supervision.