17-Year-Old LA Hit-and-Run Driver Gunned Down After Light Sentence

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FIRST ON FOX Los Angeles, 17-year-old ran over a mother with her baby in a stroller. She was punished with a few months diversionary camp. was gunned down This week in Palmdale, California

Fox News Digital previously did not identify Kristopher Baca due to his youth. He pleaded guilty last year to the hit-and run.

Los Angeles County Medical Examiner Coroner’s Office confirmed his death Friday, but said that the examination was still pending. 

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Surveillance footage captured the entire hit-and-run in Venice, California, on Aug. 6, 2021. During a June 2022 hearing for the teen driver, Los Angeles County district attorney George Gascon was criticized by the victim. 
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Deputies found him dead According to the sheriff’s Office, the victim sustained gunshot wounds in the driveway of Palmdale on Wednesday evening.

Sources close the investigation claimed that he had gone to a fast food joint earlier to try to order. “get with a girl.”

He walked alone home when a car pulled up beside him. One of the passengers in the car opened fire, and then they drove away.

This kid would still be alive if George Gascon did his job.

— Hit-and-run victim

Rachel, the young mother, asked for anonymity and moved her family to Los Angeles in order to escape from what she called soft-on-crime policies.

Fox News Digital spoke to her Friday, explaining that her husband was not in town when she received the news. She had to decide if she wanted to continue with the conversation. She stated that she was both happy and saddened by the news.

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“The universe delivered the justice we weren’t given in court, but a much harsher punishment than he’d have been dealt in a court of law,” She said.

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Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, seeking a juvenile probation camp sentence of five to seven months for the case that featured young offenders was the subject of national attention. This is a punishment described as being less severe than military school but more harsh than summer camp.

Gascon’s office Fox News Digital stated at the time, that the sentence was “an appropriate resolution.” Spokespersons have not yet responded to a request for comment on Friday.

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After striking the woman’s 8-month-old daughter, the wrong-way driver crashed into a pickup truck.
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The teen was already on felony probation after poisoning a high-school girl’s drink during the hit-and run, which surveillance cameras captured Aug. 6, 2021.

The video shows the vehicle speeding in the wrong direction down a backstreet. It crashed into a mother pushing her infant boy in a stroller. He hit the gas and drove away, where a good Samaritan driving a pickup truck ran into the suspect vehicle.

Los Angeles police responded and found drugs in the driver’s system and marijuana in the car, according to an incident report obtained by Fox News.

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The suspect, who was just 15 at the time, asked for an earlier release from light punishment. Although the judge denied the request, the court ruled that the youth was not eligible for early release. However, he died before his 18th birthday.

“I think I feel shorted — by the system because they didn’t hold him accountable and sad, not for him, but for his mom a little, because if George Gascon actually did his job, this kid would still be alive in jail,” Rachel.

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