(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – In Yuba County Court, 23-year-old Justin Taylor Preston has been sentenced to the middle term of 9 years, 8 months in state prison, after pleading no contest to charges of vehicular manslaughter and hit & run causing injury for the pedestrian that killed 13-year-old Jastelyn Hernandez Garcia and severely injured 15-year-old Carlos Rodriguez Camarillo.

The accident occurred at 7:16 the evening of January 14th on B Street near 24th. Based upon the front headlight and side mirror left at the scene of the hit & run, the suspect vehicle and Preston were found 5 days later.

He was sentenced to the middle term according to the District Attorney as he had no criminal history and wrote letters of condolence.