A hit-and-run driver was sentenced today to nearly a year in county jail and two years probation for killing a 51-year-old Long Beach man more than two years ago in Bixby Knolls.
Roughly 30 friends and family members of Felix Castro — who went by Tony – packed a Long Beach courtroom Thursday morning, where Judge Richard Goul heard from Castro’s wife and four children before handing down the sentence.
They remembered Castro as a war veteran and loving father who “showed his emotions through acts of kindness,” his oldest daughter, Makayla Castro, told the courtroom…