Lorton

The family of a Fairfax County, Virginia, man killed by a hit-and-run driver says they’re devastated after a judge dramatically reduced the driver’s sentence on Friday. In April, Guillermo Vasquez pleaded guilty to the hit-and-run crash that killed 28-year-old Joey Lanza outside his home in Lorton in 2020. A judge gave Vasquez the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison…

A judge imposed the maximum sentence on the hit-and-run driver who killed a man in front of his Northern Virginia home four years ago. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

A driver who pleaded guilty to a hit-and-run crash that killed a man in Lorton, Virginia, in 2020 was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison. Joey Lanza was 28 when he was hit and killed in February 2020 outside his own home. More than four years later, his family feared that a judge would let driver Guillermo Vazquez…

“It was spine-chilling for me to think about that — if we were asleep and there were no neighbors knocking at the door — that would have been the beginning of our clock,” said resident Rob Smith. News4’s Julie Carey reports.