One of the drivers involved in a traffic collision that killed a 16-year-old high school baseball player in Torrance, Los Angeles County, California, received his sentence on Tuesday, August 4th. Darryl Leander Hicks Jr., 32, would spend the next 11 years in state prison for killing Jesse Esphorst Jr., and injuring his father.

The county Deputy District Attorney Ryan Gould said that the man was convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, reckless driving causing injury or death, and hit-and-run driving causing death or severe damage to another person in January.

He was also found guilty of hit-and-run driving resulting in specified injury, and one misdemeanor count each of hit-and-run driving, causing property damage and driving on a suspected license.

Jurors arrived at a guilty verdict after finding evidence that Hicks indeed fled the scene of the accident on March 7th, 2017. The accident report at the time placed the man behind the wheel of a 2004 Audi A6. The suspect and his co-accused, Tung Ming, 24, who drove a 2014 Mercedes Benz GLK350 ran a red light on northbound Crenshaw Boulevard.

The act caused the two men to crash into the 2000 Toyota Sienna driven by the victim’s father. The man was turning left from the southbound lane of Crenshaw to eastbound Crest at about 10 p.m. The Torrance Police said that Hicks and Ming had a minor collision earlier, and the latter was chasing the former when they crashed.

Ming stayed at the scene while the convict fled. Both men were taken into custody two days apart, and they both posted bail. In June, the Mercedes driver received a two-year sentence for his role in the collision.

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