A 61-year-old man is expected to be sentenced to 16 years in state prison after pleading no contest to two felony charges for a 2021 hit-and-run crash in North Long Beach that left a man dead and a woman injured, authorities said.

Patrick Rea Mount of Long Beach pleaded no contest in Long Beach Superior Court on Monday, Oct. 20, to single counts of gross vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run causing serious injury or death, said Pam Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He also pleaded no contest to an enhancement of fleeing the scene.

Mount’s case was scheduled to start jury selection when he changed his plea.

On July 7, 2021, just after 3:40 a.m., Darnell Bluitt, a 54-year-old Compton resident, was helping push a disabled car along with another

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