Updated on May 4, 2021 at 8:26 am
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A hit-and-run driver – who stopped to get food at a taco shop after killing a father in San Diego’s Sherman Heights community – will spend the next four years in prison, a judge ruled Monday.
Christopher Nunez, 29, pleaded guilty late last year to vehicular manslaughter for the death of Jason Gordon, 41.
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On Jan. 19, 2020, at around 2 a.m., Nunez hit Gordon with his SUV along the 1800 block of Market Street. Deputy District Attorney Jessica Paugh said Gordon was crossing the street when Nunez hit him, dragging him more than 100 feet down the roadway.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Friends, family and neighbors have set up a memorial filled with balloons, flowers, candles and signs that read ‘fly high my brothers’ to honor and remember 23-year-old Christopher Nunez and 22-year-old Bernadino Santamarina.
Two lives, families tells us, were taken far too soon in a senseless act of violence.
A press release sent to KOLD News 13 on March 9 states Nunez and Santamarina were involved in an argument with another group in a parking lot, shortly after someone pulled out a gun and opened fire, hitting both of them. Police found the victims inside a red Honda Civic that had crashed nearby into a wall.
Deputy District Attorney Jessica Paugh said Gordon was crossing the street when he was struck by an SUV and dragged more than 100 feet down the roadway. Gordon, a married father of two daughters, died at the scene.
The victim was the husband to Katie Gordon and the father of their young twin daughters, MaKayla Gordon and Malea Gordon. My heart aches for my girls, for their future, but I have to be strong for them, Katie Gordon told NBC 7 in January.
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An undated image of Jason Gordon and his two daughters, MaKayla and Malea.
Following the crash, Nunez stopped for food at Humberto s Taco Shop, less than a mile from the site of the traffic fatality, police said. While in the restaurant s parking lot, police said he also crashed into an occupied vehicle.
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A motorist who fatally struck a pedestrian in Sherman Heights and drove off without stopping pleaded guilty Tuesday to vehicular manslaughter.
Christopher Nunez, 29, faces up to six years in state prison for the Jan. 19 hit-and-run death of 41-year-old Jason Gordon, who was struck about 2 a.m. on Market Street.
Deputy District Attorney Jessica Paugh said Gordon was crossing the street when he was struck by an SUV and dragged more than 100 feet.
Gordon, a married father of two daughters, died at the scene.
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After the crash, Nunez stopped for food at Humberto’s Taco Shop, less than a mile from the site of the crash, police said. While in the restaurant’s parking lot, police said, he also crashed into an occupied vehicle.