(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – In Yuba County Court, 23-year-old Justin Preston of Marysville has pled no contest to felony hit & run vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, and hit & run that resulted in the death of a 13-year-old girl and injury to a 15-year-old boy.

The night of January 14th, at around 7:16, Marysville Police Officers responded to a report of a pedestrian hit & run in the 1900 block of B Street. The two had been hit by Preston as they were walking home from an event at the Youth & Civic Center.

Once tracked down from evidence at the scene and license plate reader info, investigators determined Preston’s vision was obscured due to “fogging of his windshield” according to an email from the DA to The Appeal-Democrat.

Preston faces a maximum 11 years, 8 months when sentenced April 14th.