A Colorado man who pleaded guilty to careless driving resulting in the death of a 13-year-old boy has been sentenced to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine — the maximum sentence allowed by law.
Ruben Morones pleaded guilty last year after investigators said he ran a red light and struck and killed 13-year-old Alexander Mackiewicz in Highlands Ranch on March 6, 2024.
Morones was sentenced on Tuesday by Douglas County Judge Larry Raymond Bowling. He was arrested in March and pleaded guilty in October of last year. As part of that plea agreement, charges of careless driving resulting in injury and disregard for traffic signals were dismissed.
Mackiewicz’s mother Victoria Cegielski sat in court with a jacket over a T-shirt with a picture of her son that read “justice for Alex.” In her Highlands Ranch home, a clock is frozen at 6:48 a.m. — the time her son was killed.