17-year-old who ran over mother and her baby in 2021 is gunned down after light sentence
An adolescent who was sentenced to only 5 months in a diversionary camp for working over a mom and her child in 2021 was killed throughout a dispute.
Kristopher Baca, 17, was discovered useless of gunshot wounds in a driveway on the 83600 block of eleventh Avenue East on Wednesday night.
A supply stated he acquired into an argument at a quick meals restaurant after attempting to “get with a woman.”
As he walked residence, a automobile pulled up subsequent to him and an argument ensued. Somebody within the automobile opened hearth, then sped off.
Baca was solely 15 when he callously plowed a rental automobile right into a mom, recognized as Rachel, and her toddler who was in a stroller.
He was already on felony probation for poisoning a highschool woman’s drink when the hit-and-run occurred on Aug. 6, 2021 in Venice, California.
Surveillance video reveals Rachel trying to keep away from the automobile however Baca deliberately steered the automobile into her and her toddler. The mother and little one weren’t critically injured.
After hitting the pair, Baca tried to flee however a great Samaritan in a pickup truck rammed his automobile and he crashed right into a phone pole.
Offended bystanders dragged Baca out of the automobile and held him till police arrived.
Rachel blasted Los Angeles County District Legal professional George Gascon who sentenced {the teenager} to only 5 months in a diversionary camp.
Gascon, a Democrat who’s smooth on criminals, instructed Rachel on the time that the sentence was “truthful” and “an acceptable decision.”
Rachel instructed Fox News Digital on Friday that she was each relieved and saddened by the information of Baca’s homicide.
“The universe delivered the justice we weren’t given in court docket, however a a lot harsher punishment than he’d have been dealt in a court docket of regulation,” she stated.
