Excerpts from ABC7chicago.com:
A driver who killed a Chicago firefighter in a hit-and-run crash last year in the North Side Rogers Park neighborhood has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Simeon Barrientos, 23, pleaded guilty May 1 to one count of failure to report an accident involving death.
About 7:30 p.m. on June 12, 2016, Lorenzo Douglas, a firefighter at Chicago FD assigned to Engine 103, was outside his parked vehicle in the 6500 block of North Ashland when a northbound minivan moved into the southbound lanes and hit him, his vehicle, and two other parked vehicles. Douglas was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston.
After the crash, he began to improve and was rehabilitating at Holy Family Medical Center in Des Plaines, but suffered from some kind of relapse at the medical center and was pronounced dead there at 11:05 a.m. on July 5, 2016. An autopsy the next day found he died from injuries suffered when he was struck, and his death was ruled an accident.
The driver, later identified as Barrientos, also a Rogers Park resident, ran away after the crash and was later arrested and charged.
The judge sentenced Barrientos to 10 years in prison. He will receive credit for 296 days served in the Cook County Jail, and must serve one year of supervised release.
He was booked into the Stateville Correctional Center to begin serving his sentence.
