BASTROP COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A Bastrop County judge sentenced the concrete pump truck driver involved in the deadly 2024 Hays Consolidated Independent School District school bus crash.

Jerry Hernandez, 44, was charged with two counts of manslaughter and two counts of criminally negligent homicide. He entered a guilty plea to manslaughter, which the court accepted. Hernandez was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

The state previously dismissed the criminally negligent homicide charges.

The March 22, 2024, crash on State Highway 21 killed 5-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya and 33-year-old Ryan Wallace, who was driving in a car behind the bus.

“We don’t feel today justice was made," Lilly Wallace, Ryan's mom, said during the sentencing hearing. “He just started a career he worked so hard

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