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A judge sentenced a Portage woman to 20 years Thursday for helping her husband, who gunned down the other driver in a car wreck with her earlier that day.

Angelia Cross, 48, pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy to commit murder, a Level 1 felony.

The victim’s family did not attend the brief hearing.

“I just apologize,” Angelia Cross said in court.

Court filings show she admitted she went to a home in the 4100 block of W. 22nd Plaza in Gary where she told family about the crash.

She then drove her husband, Billy Cross, a block away where the victim, Kylin Bursey, was with his girlfriend and children.

Security footage showed Bursey standing near the back of his red Chevrolet Tahoe on West 23rd Avenue with four people — three men and a wo

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