Erlin Garcia-Reyes, 28, of Normandy Park, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for the hit and run death of cyclist Michael Wang on July 28, 2011 in Seattle. Michael Wang is pictured.
According to Kingcounty.gov's Prosecutor's Office web page:
Sentencing in Seattle hit and run--Erlin Garcia-Reyes, 28, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for the hit and run death of cyclist Michael Wang on July 28, 2011 in Seattle. Garcia-Reyes pleaded guilty last month as charged to Felony Hit and Run. The sentencing hearing was before Judge Michael Trickey. The sentence range for felony hit and run is 31 to 41 months in prison. Prosecutors recommended 41 months.
Prior article from our police blotter page:
Normandy Park man pleads guilty for July, 2011 hit-and-run that killed bicyclist Twenty-eight year-old Erlin Garcia-Reyes of Normandy Park was booked into the King County Jail Wednesday, July 18, for a felony hit-and-run. He pleaded guilty July 17. He was arrested June 6. Police say more than 50 tips from the public helped them track down a driver suspected in a hit-and-run accident that killed a bicycle rider July 28 of last year on Dexter Ave. N., in Seattle. Bail was set at $500,000 at a Thursday afternoon court hearing. He will face a prison term of two years and seven months to three years and five months at his sentencing hearing scheduled for Aug. 10. The victim, 44-yearold Michael Wang, was a a husband, and father of two, and a photographer at PATH, a Seattle-based global nonprofit world health organization. He commuted by bike to his home in Shoreline. Wang was struck July 28 by an SUV making a turn. The driver left the scene.