BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) - The driver in a hit-and-run crash that
killed a Brookings teenager has been sentenced to 15 years in
prison.
     Eighteen-year-old Jose Hernandez pleaded guilty last month to
vehicular homicide and a hit-and-run charge in the death last Sept.
3 of 17-year-old John Bennett. Hernandez was sentenced this week.
     Hernandez was accused of drinking and driving a sport utility
vehicle that ran a red light and hit Bennett's car, killing him.
Hernandez fled the scene but later surrendered to authorities in
Austin, Texas.
     Defense attorney Robert Fite said Hernandez was working in the
United States to provide for his family in Mexico.
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