San Diego
The San Diego County district attorney’s office said Wednesday that no further charges will be filed against a hit-and-run driver who was sentenced before the victim died.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Ed Checkert said a vehicular manslaughter charge will not be brought against Wayne LaFantasie, 22, of San Diego, who was sentenced April 17 to 120 days work furlough, $200 a month restitution and a year’s suspended license for felony hit and run. Dianne Nelson Mulligan, 39, of La Mesa, was in a coma most of the time after the Jan. 6 accident until she died at Mercy Hospital on April 30 of pneumonia and complications from extensive head and leg injuries.
Police and the district attorney’s office decided last week to reopen the investigation after Mulligan died.
Checkert said they decided to drop the matter because of “lack of evidence of gross negligence.”
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