Darius Watts, 24, pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for the July 27, 2022, death of Niurca Rios.
A man who drove under the influence of drugs and fatally struck a woman standing on a sidewalk in El Cajon was sentenced Thursday to nine years in state prison. Rios, 20, was struck just before 9 p.m. on North Second Street near an on-ramp to Interstate 8. After officers responded to the scene, they received reports of a Hyundai Sonata stopped in the middle of the road on nearby Naranca Avenue. Watts was found in the driver's seat of the car and arrested.
Police said that along with front-end damage, a traffic signal was found hanging from Watts' vehicle, which was struck just after Rios was hit by the car. At his sentencing hearing in El Cajon Superior Court, which was attended by around 20 members of Rios' family, Watts apologized to the family and said he's 'cried until I can't cry anymore' over the crash.
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