BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK/KBFX) — More than a decade after a hit-and-run DUI crash killed Kern High School District Police Chief Steven Alvidrez, the man convicted in the case was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years to life in prison, according to Kern County court records.
David Lopez Lilly was convicted in January after pleading no contest.
The case dates to June 17, 2011, when Alvidrez was riding a motorcycle on Highway 99 near Pond Road at about 11:30 p.m. Alvidrez and his wife, who was a passenger, were traveling north to visit family in Visalia.
At the same time, Lilly was also headed north and was “swerving all over the road,” prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Lilly was heavily intoxicated and driving 90 to 100 miles per hour when he approached the motorcycle and rear-ended it…