LAS VEGAS (AP) - An 18-year-old Utah woman has been sentenced to three to 12 years in prison for leaving the scene of a crash that hurt eight pedestrians outside a North Las Vegas storefront church last summer.
The Las Vegas Sun reports (https://bit.ly/PryutR ) that Nyakueth Tear (NEYE’-keeth TEER’) cried softly at sentencing Tuesday by Clark County District Court Judge James Bixler.
Tear pleaded guilty Feb. 12 to driving away after hitting people late Aug. 8 outside Iglesia de Cristo on Losee (LOH’-see) Road.
A 54-year-old man was critically hurt and a pregnant woman was among seven others injured.
Tear admitted stopping and then trying to drive away before crashing and running toward Interstate 15.
Her lawyer, Ronald Paulson, says the punishment was too harsh. He says Tear was never in trouble before.
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