Local News in Brief : Driver Sentenced in Death
A motorist who ran over and killed a 2-year-old boy in South-Central Los Angeles while fleeing a hit-and-run accident was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years to life in state prison.
Superior Court Judge Raymond Mireles imposed the sentence on Miguel Perez, 22, of Los Angeles, who was convicted May 6 of second-degree murder. He ran over the boy, Issac Hockaday, last August while being chased at speeds up to 50 miles an hour by another motorist on 37th Street near Maple Avenue.
The second motorist minutes earlier had witnessed Perez run a red light and broadside another vehicle, causing minor injuries to a woman in the vehicle, then flee.
Deputy Dist. Atty. James Brandlin said the chase finally ended when Perez ran over the child and his grandmother, Ozelia Hockaday, breaking her leg and shearing off one of her ears. Perez’s car stopped when it struck a concrete lamp pole.
Witnesses at the scene beat Perez and rolled his car off the dead child, Brandlin said.
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