Drunk Driver gets life in prison for killing high school student

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“That boy sat on the windshield for hours and bled to death, wide awake, and that man gets life in prison?!" A Caddo parish judge sentenced Jimmy Ray White to life in prison. White drove drunk and ran into a Shreveport high school student who was on the side of the road, with friends, trying to help a stranded woman.

Tonight a teen who witnessed the devastating accident is speaking out. Nbc 6 reporter Karen Hopkins found he's still searching for closure after seeing his friend get killed before his very own eyes.

“I couldn't believe it, it was hard to believe." Tray Cummings and his friend, 15-year-old Adam Klingensmith, were standing on the side of the road trying to help a woman fix her car. That's when the unthinkable happened. “By the time I turned around, all I heard was a big boom and I couldn't find Adam anywhere."

A drunk driver named Jimmy Ray White hit Klingensmith and drove with the teen's body across his windshield before dumping him along the road, leaving him for dead. “It was scary it could have been either one of us."

Two years after the tragic accident, White was sentenced today to spend the rest of his life behind bars. White is a habitual felony offender with three prior convictions. “I don't want to talk about it. That man doesn't deserve to go to prison. He deserves torture.” Klingensmith was the boy next door for Charles Cummings. He watched him grow up. “It's emotional. He was a good boy. It didn’t have to happen to him."

“He was just goofy he liked to joke a lot. If you need a friend he was always there." Now he's gone. “They lost a good boy."

Cummings says don't take the people you love for granted. "We miss him."

Klingensmith was a freshman at Byrd high school in Shreveport when he died.