DENVER — A woman who pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from a hit-and-run that killed a man who was changing a tire will avoid prison time.
Marisol Infante, 30, was sentenced to six years in community corrections Thursday after pleading guilty in February to vehicular homicide-reckless driving, court records show. A charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving death was dismissed as part of a plea deal.
Carlos Mercado, 52, was changing a flat tire on the right shoulder of southbound Interstate 25, just north of the West Alameda Avenue exit, in July of last year when he was struck. Infante left the scene and turned herself in at a Boulder police station five days later when a Medina Alert was put out for the Toyota 4Runner she was driving…