'She was on top of the hood': 75-year-old grandma walking to bus stop mowed down by teen, who got out and looked at her dying in the street before taking off

An Arizona teen is headed to situation for little than 3 years aft plowing into a 75-year-old grandmother with his car, with dashcam video showing him getting retired to look astatine her dying successful the thoroughfare earlier helium "decided to instrumentality off," according to prosecutors.

"She was connected apical of the hood of the car," said Maria Rodriguez-Romero, 1 of Sally Rodriguez's six children, successful an interrogation with section NBC affiliate KVOA past November aft the Tucson matriarch was killed.

Alexis Eduardo Ibarra-Guerrero, 18, was driving without a licence erstwhile helium plowed into Rodriguez connected Nov. 3 arsenic she was walking to a autobus halt to caput to work. Rodriguez was conscionable 2 blocks distant from her location erstwhile police recovered her dormant successful the street.

Police said Ibarra-Guerrero struck the septuagenarian and past drove for respective blocks with her connected the hood of his car. Investigators accidental Rodriguez either fell disconnected oregon was pushed disconnected by Ibarra-Guerrero successful the 200 artifact of West Tennessee Street successful Tucson.

"He fundamentally looked astatine the victim… and decided to instrumentality off," a authoritative said successful tribunal aft Ibarra-Guerrero's arrest, per KVOA.

The teen, who is reportedly successful the United States illegally, turned himself successful and confessed to the hit-and-run but was not recovered liable for Rodriguez's decease owed to the collision being ruled an accident, according to section CBS affiliate KOLD. He was charged with 1 number of nonaccomplishment to stay astatine the country of a fatal collision, to which helium pleaded guilty.

A Pima County justice sentenced Ibarra-Guerrero past week to 2 1/2 years down bars, with recognition for 100 days helium already served, KOLD reports.

The woman's household condemned the determination not to complaint Ibarra-Guerrero for Rodriguez's death, with her son-in-law telling KOLD successful November, "I'm angry. … I've known radical that person done less, and been charged with worse."

Another household subordinate told the tribunal during Ibarra-Guerrero's sentencing, "He needs to look the consequences that a grown antheral should. He messed up and present it's clip for him to look the music."

Ibarra-Guerrero's lawyer noted that portion helium accepts work for fleeing, "the grounds successful this lawsuit goes to amusement that this was an accident," KOLD reports.

A GoFundMe launched for Rodriguez's household describes her arsenic a "devoted mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and a pillar of our household and community."

Unless Ibarra-Guerrero gets deported, helium volition beryllium released connected supervision astatine the completion of his sentence.

"The choices radical marque person existent consequences," Rodriguez's son-in-law said astatine the teen's sentencing. "Our children, our future, indispensable larn responsibility."