Pa. teen heading to prison for at least 3 years for hit-and-run
An eastern Pennsylvania teenager is going to prison for his role in a fatal hit-and-run.
The (Pottstown) Mercury reports that 19-year-old Cristian Fuentes will spend the next three to seven years in state prison after a December 2014 collision in Bridgeport that killed Thomas Daley.
Daley’s family members testified during the Phoenixville man’s sentencing hearing Tuesday in Montgomery County Court.
Daley’s wife, Eileen, told Fuentes that she thinks he has no soul and has ice running through his veins.
Fuentes said there is no excuse for what he did and that he knows he has to go to prison.
The mandatory minimum sentence in Pennsylvania for a fatal hit-and-run is three years in prison.
The judge called Fuentes’ actions morally reprehensible.
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