(Click on the image for Lynh Bui's Washington Post report)
- In one of the last conversations Christian Guerreiro had with his father, the young U.S. Navy sailor had asked what happens to a person’s financial affairs after they die.
- Four days after their father-son talk, Christian Guerreiro was dead. But the 21-year-old did not die on a military mission or in combat.
- Rather, on Aug. 1, 2018, he was killed in a hit-and-run crash after an SUV plowed into him and his friend as they were fixing the sports car they’d been riding in after it broke down along the side of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge near National Harbor in Maryland.
- On Monday, the driver convicted of killing Guerreiro and fleeing the scene, John David Mueller Jr., 33, was sentenced to 14 years and six months in prison — a punishment more than five years above the maximum recommended in state guidelines.
- Jorge Guerreiro said he wished Mueller had pleaded guilty instead of putting the family through the pain of a four-day trial, further wounding the grieving family.