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California Hit-and-run Driver Who Plowed Into Mother and Baby in 2021 Shot Dead

'The universe delivered the justice we weren’t given in court,' the mother said

California Hit-and-run Driver Who Plowed Into Mother and Baby in 2021 Shot Dead
A sign stands outside Los Angeles County sheriff's training academy in Whittier, Calif., Nov. 16, 2022. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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1/21/2023|Updated: 1/22/2023
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A 17-year-old California teenager, who in 2021 stole a car and rammed it into a mother walking with her baby and later received a light punishment, was on Wednesday shot to death in the street.

Kristopher Baca, who was sentenced to just several months in a juvenile probation camp for the 2021 crime, was shot and killed on Jan. 18 in Palmdale, according to Det. Ray Lugo of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the LA Times reports.
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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