Billings woman sentenced to prison for negligent homicide [Video]

BILLINGS – A Billings woman has been sentenced to prison for causing the death of her boyfriend who was found fatally injured outside a South Side business.

Nicola Ann Beverlin, 40, was ordered at a sentencing hearing Wednesday in Yellowstone County District Court to serve 20 years at the Montana Women’s Prison, with five years suspended, for negligent homicide. Judge Rod Souza also ordered Beverlin to serve a five-year consecutive suspended sentence for failure to stop or remain at the scene involving death or serious bodily injury.

As part of a plea agreement, Souza dismissed a charge of vehicular homicide while under the influence, according to court records.

Beverlin was charged for the Aug. 12, 2023 death of Luis Torres who was found in the grass in front of a business near the intersection of King Avenue East and City Center Circle.

Investigators, aided by surveillance video from the business, …