A 61-year-old man is expected to be sentenced to 16 years in state prison after pleading no contest to two felony charges for a 2021 hit-and-run crash in North Long Beach that left a man dead and a woman injured, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Patrick Rea Mount of Long Beach pleaded no contest in Long Beach Superior Court on Monday, Oct. 20, to single counts of gross vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run causing serious injury or death, said Pam Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office. He also pleaded no contest to an enhancement of fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n
Mount\u2019s case was scheduled to start jury selection when he changed his plea.<\/p>\n
On July 7, 2021, just after 3:40 a.m., Darnell Bluitt, a 54-year-old Compton resident, was helping push a disabled car along with another man with the woman steering when Mount, driving a pickup truck, hit them from behind and then continued driving, police said at the time of Mount\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n
The crash happened in the westbound lanes of Artesia Boulevard east of the 710 Freeway.<\/p>\n
Despite help from paramedics, Bluitt died at the scene.<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old Compton woman was hospitalized, police said. The second man who was helping escaped injury.<\/p>\n
Mount continued along in the pickup truck but was found in a nearby neighborhood and taken into custody, police said.<\/p>\n
He was scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 61-year-old man is expected to be sentenced to 16 years in state prison after pleading no contest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,1312,723,138,131,133,132,137,100,1492,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-16026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-long-beach","13":"tag-long-beach-headlines","14":"tag-long-beach-news","15":"tag-los-angeles-county","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-public-safety","18":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}