A driver who ran away from a crash that killed a Long Beach man and critically injured a woman in August 2024 was sentenced to 11 years in state prison Wednesday, May 6, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Guillermo Penaloza, 36, was handed the sentence about a month after pleading no contest to vehicular manslaughter in relation to the Aug. 2, 2024, crash that left Allan Kash, 33, of Long Beach dead, according to court records.
Long Beach police, at the time of Penaloza’s arrest, said officers on patrol spotted Penaloza in a Chevrolet Suburban SUV and “had a brief verbal exchange with him as they passed one another in their vehicles” before Penaloza sped away at a high rate of speed on 14th Street. The officers followed from a distance and were not in pursuit.
Penaloza crashed into a Saturn sedan that was traveling southbound along Cherry Avenue, then got out of the Suburban and ran off, police said.
Officers surrounded the area and called in SWAT team officers, police said. Penaloza was arrested less than three hours later.
Both Kash and the woman inside the Saturn were taken to a hospital, but Kash died.
Penaloza also entered no contest pleas for single counts of receiving a stolen vehicle in two other cases, but those sentences were ordered to be served simultaneously with his 11-year term, the district attorney’s office said.
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