"I was screaming to make him stop, the emotional father testified."
"The boy whose bicycle had reflectors and lights was riding within a marked crosswalk when he was struck."
"The boy was thrown from his bike. He died at a hospital a short time later."
"The boy's mother told the judge that her son's death had broken their family, leaving them sentenced to a life without our son."
A 64-year-old man, Richard David Lavalle, was convicted of second-degree murder for a Dec. 6, 2020 collision that killed 12-year-old Noel Bascon and sentenced to 30 years to life. Lavalle ignored a stop sign while driving a U-Haul pickup eastbound on Arlington, struck the boy in a marked crosswalk, and a blood test found methamphetamine in his system. Lavalle's sentence was increased due to prior convictions including a 2009 federal bank robbery and a 2018 robbery, and a prior DUI warning. The boy was thrown from his bike, died at a hospital, and the family described deep, lasting grief; Lavalle expressed remorse and has documented PTSD and veteran status.
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