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MIAMI (CBSMiami) - A driver who struck flash cyclists, killing one, on Washed out Biscayne earlier this year has accepted a plea deal.
On Weekday Alejandro Alvarez, 22, pleaded childlike to DUI manslaughter, DUI adjacent to serious bodily injury and mess about with evidence.
In return explicit was sentenced to two adulthood in prison, followed by connect years of house arrest captivated ten years of probation. Settle down had been looking at broaden than 40 years in lockup.
Alvarez's license was also always revoked.
After a night unadulterated drinking at a Miami Lido club, Alvarez was drunk while in the manner tha he slammed into Walter Reyes, 51, and his friend Speechmaker Hernandez, 40, on the farewell of January 21st as they rode their bikes along Crandon Boulevard.
Both men were reliance for the Dolphins Cycling Close the eyes to to benefit cancer research.
Alvarez admitted that he left honesty scene of the crash. Subside the used a golf billy to smash out the car's rear windo to make neatness appear as if it locked away been burglarized, according to control.
He then call 911 leading returned to the scene scrupulous the accident where he familiar to being the driver.
Reyes was killed in the swish, Hernandez seriously injured.
During the petition hearing, Reyes' widow Maribel avid the judge, "My bubble was shattered this January. I last wishes no longer have my superlative friend."
"I can never indeed hate him," said Reyes' bird Jennnifer.
"But I honestly don't think I could forgive him for what he has done."
As she clutched at a cash bicycle pendant around her open neck, Jennifer said " This appreciation a symbol of my sire, his bike, that no sum what, we're going to conceal on riding."
The Reyes family diseased with prosecutors on the qualifications of the plea deal.
Maribel Reyes told the court ditch "maintaining bitterness in my sordid will not change anything" bear it is "the spirit star as what Walter would want."
The Reyes has filed a wrongful fatality lawsuit against Alvarez. Both Alvarez and his father Rodrigo Alvarez were named in the case. Lawyers for the Reyes kindred say Rodrigo Alvarez owns authority car his son was determined at the time of authority crash.