Shane Shahan to spend 19 years to life behind bars for deadly central Fresno crash

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A convicted murderer volition present walk 19 years to beingness down bars for the 2023 clang that killed Jesse Espino successful Central Fresno.

36-year-old Shane Shahan sat with his caput down successful a Fresno County courtroom connected Tuesday arsenic helium heard from the household of his victim, who did not privation their faces shown.

"We are not the aforesaid radical we were earlier that day. My parents person suffered the eventual calamity and I person mislaid my lone sibling, the idiosyncratic I was expected to turn aged with," Espino's sister, Crystal said.

About a period ago, a assemblage recovered Shahan blameworthy of Espino's murder.

That assemblage saw surveillance video of the crash, which shows Shahan tally a reddish airy astatine astir 80 miles an hr connected First and McKinley, ramming into Espino's car.

Video besides shows Shahan looking backmost astatine the wreck and moving away.

"There was nary telephone telephone to 911, adjacent though helium had a compartment phone," Fresno County Judge Diaz said.

Espino was taken to the hospital, wherever helium died.

"Seeing Jesse laying motionless connected the infirmary table... it's an representation I unrecorded with each day," Espino's father, Edward said done tears. "I kissed his forehead and said my past goodbye, knowing thing volition ever bring him back."

Shahan has a past of alcohol-related driving crimes, and was down the instrumentality with a suspended license.

Prosecutors claimed helium had intoxicant and marijuana successful his strategy astatine the time.

"This is not conscionable 1 atrocious decision. It was aggregate atrocious decisions and selfish decisions," Judge Diaz stated.

Shahan's household pleading for a lesser sentence, saying helium is remorseful and moving to change.

"Shane was actively trying to code past mistakes and determination guardant successful a affirmative direction. He wanted to grow, to mature," Shahan's woman Ryan said.

After proceeding from some families, the justice handed down the maximum sentence.

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