Man accelerates BMW SUV into pedestrian crossing the street and keeps driving, saying he was ‘trying to make a still-green light’

A man was crossing a major Las Vegas street when a BMW driver slammed into him, ending his life and ultimately landing the driver in prison.

Stephon Watkins, 37, was initially charged with hit-and-run and reckless driving in connection with the death of 29-year-old Jeffrey Ryan Diedenhofen, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

The defendant pleaded guilty last month, however, to failure to stop at the scene of a crash involving death, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Watkins was subsequently sentenced this week to four to 12 years in prison…

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