Fresno driver who hit, killed 10-year-old boy near Woodward Park to serve 3.5 years in prison

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A justice sentenced Raymond Celaya connected Wednesday for a deadly 2021 Northeast Fresno hit-and-run, weeks aft a assemblage convicted him of vehicular manslaughter for the clang that killed Angel Hernandez.

His household knew him arsenic Bubba.

"He was lone 10 years aged and inactive had his full beingness to live," household subordinate Irma Murphy said successful court.

For respective minutes, she work letters from Bubba's aunt, cousin, and sister. The lad was walking with his household astatine Friant and Fort Washington adjacent Woodward Park erstwhile helium got hit.

"I miss my brother," Murphy work from 1 letter. "I miss him always. He volition everlastingly unrecorded successful our hearts."

Bubba's cousin, Gabriel, described the lasting interaction of Bubba's death, saying it has everlastingly changed him.

"I ne'er spoke the same," helium said. "I ne'er slept the same. It was hard for maine astatine night."

Celaya remained quiet, mostly with his caput down. His dependable seemed to waver arsenic helium offered a afloat apology.

"I would conscionable similar to apologize to the Hernandez household for this accident," Celaya said. "I volition commune for the household for the remainder of my life. I'm truthful sorry."

As Celaya branded the transgression an "accident," the justice said it was thing but, highlighting his transgression past and calling his actions "callous."

"Not lone was it a 10-year-old boy. That 10-year-old lad was successful the crosswalk connected the green," Fresno County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Hamilton said. "He was doing the close happening portion you were doing everything wrong."

The justice imposed the maximum condemnation of 7 years arsenic requested by Bubba's family.

State argumentation means Celaya is expected to service 50 percent, totaling three-and-a-half years-

"It is unbelievable to maine that the magnitude of clip you're going to bash is three-and-a-half existent years erstwhile you took the beingness of a 10-year-old who was doing thing but the close thing," Judge Hamilton said.

He urged Celaya to instrumentality vantage of opportunities successful situation to amended his life.

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