Texas man sentenced for 2022 fatal hit-and-run – NBC New York

A man from Texas was once sentenced to just about a decade at the back of bars for a fatal hit-and-run remaining 12 months at the Garden State Parkway.

Fornice Boatner, 33, was once sentenced Tuesday was once sentenced to 9 years for the crime of second-degree knowingly leaving the scene of a motor car coincidence leading to demise, the Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone mentioned.

The sentence stems from the occasions in May 2022. It was once at the morning of might 25, 2022 that that New Jersey State Police replied to a document of an individual in a ditch subsequent to the northbound facet of the Garden State Parkway in Woodbridge Township. When officials positioned the frame close to milepost 130.4, it was once recognized as Elizabeth resident, 31-year-old Felipe Dos-Santos, who was once pronounced useless on the scene.

Detectives made up our minds that 3 days prior at round 1 a.m., Dos-Santos was once strolling northbound at the shoulder of the throughway close to milepost 130.4, when he was once hit by way of a 2007 silver Dodge Ram that fled the scene. A next investigation discovered that the motive force and registered proprietor of the car was once Boatner.

Allegedly, Boatner made upkeep to the car to hide the wear sustained within the hit-and-run.

On May 28, 2022, Boatner was once arrested by way of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office at his Texas resident. Boatner was once charged with vehicular murder, leaving the scene of a motor car crash inflicting demise, hindering, obstruction, and tampering with proof. He was once extradited to New Jersey on June 10, 2022.

Subsequently, on Jan. 30 of this 12 months, Boatner pled to blame to second-degree knowingly leaving the scene of a motor car coincidence leading to demise however failed to seem at sentencing. However, previous this month, Boatner was once arrested and charged with bail leaping.