'Hatred Is Eating Me Up': Teen Sentenced In Bridgeport Hit And Run

BRIDGEPORT, PA - A Phoenixville teenager will spend the next three to seven years in prison after leaving the scene of a fatal hit-and-run in December 2014.

Cristian Fuentes, 19, was driving in Bridgeport at about 11:39 p.m. on December 5 when he ran over Thomas Daley, according to the Times Herald. The incident happened near the intersection of Ford and Rambo streets.

Witnesses saw Fuentes’ green Ford Explorer, after hearing a loud noise, and then saw Fuentes get out of the car, get back in the car, and drive away, the report states.

Initial reports had a second car running over Daley, but investigators said that did not happen.

An anonymous caller reported Fuentes on December 6, and when police arrived at his home, he reportedly said: “I hit him, I hit him, I hit him and I panicked.”

“I know I will have to forgive you someday,” said Eileen Daley, the wife of the victim, according to the report. ”This hatred is eating me up inside. I don’t know who I am anymore.”

“I think you have no soul and you have ice running through your veins,” Daley added to Fuentes.

Fuentes’ defense argued that he panicked, and explained his background as a hard-working young man who works full time to support his family while working his way through Montgomery County Community College.