13 months after Woodland seventeen year old Claudia Reyes was killed killed in traffic on I-5, the hit-and-run driver, Camron Matthew Ervin, 28, of Sacramento, pleaded no contest days before his trial was to begin in Yolo Superior Court.
Ervin was at the wheel of his 1998 Buick Park Avenue headed northbound on I-5 just after midnight on July 5, 2013 when the vehicle fatally struck Reyes, and kept on going. About a week after Reyes’s death, California Highway Patrol investigators turned up the vehicle they think hit her. It was scheduled for demolition the day after they found it a Sacramento scrap yard.
Ervin admitted to a felony count of hit-and-run causing death. However, Yolo Superior Court Judge David Rosenberg asserted this charge may be reduced to a misdemeanor in 18 months.
After attending a Fourth of July party in West Sacramento, Reyes was being driven back to Woodland. Near County Road 103, the driver of the car she rode in pulled over onto the I-5 shoulder. Reyes, for reasons that are still unclear, became upset, exited this vehicle, ran out into freeway traffic and was killed by Ervin’s Buick.
Sentencing will take place on September 24.
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