CANFIELD, Ohio - A Boardman man has been sentenced to serve one year on probation and to pay a 100 dollar fine for the death of his roommate last February.

Sixty-year-old Max Fitzer appeared in Mahoning County Court on Friday where he pleaded no contest to a charge of aggravated vehicular manslaughter, which had been reduced from the more serious charge of aggravated vehicular homicide.

Fitzer told police that he let his roommate, Eric Bacher, out of the S-U-V in the driveway of their Macarthur Drive home, then pulled into the garage.

Fitzer says he found Bacher trapped beneath the S-U-V about 25 minutes later.

Emergency personnel pronounced Bacher dead at the scene.