LA teen who plowed into mother walking her baby in a stroller is shot dead on the street  

A 17-year-old Los Angeles teenager, who was behind a shocking hit-and-run incident that injured a mother and her baby who was in a stroller, has been fatally shot.

Kristopher Baca was killed in Palmdale, California, from gunshot wounds Wednesday night while walking down the street alone.

baca was sentenced to only seven months in a juvenile probation camp following the accident on August 6, 2021 when he was only 15 years old.

Disgusting footage of the accident went viral, showing Baca crashing his black car into the victim, who has only been identified as Rachel, as she was standing on the side of the road with her eight-month-old son Charlie in a stroller.

She was thrown over the roof of the vehicle when she collided with the baby.

Incredibly, the baby was not seriously injured, while its mother only received cuts to her elbow.

Moments before Baca’s death, a car pulled up next to him, at which point an argument broke out and Baca was shot. The car then sped up.

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Surveillance footage captured the horrific hit-and-run incident that occurred on August 6, 2021 in Venice, California.

At the time, Rachel criticized Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon during an early release hearing for the teen in June 2022.

When informed of Baca’s death, she said she was both relieved and saddened by the news.

“The universe delivered the justice we were not given in court, but a much harsher punishment than what I would have received in a court of law,” he said in a statement.

“I think I feel short, for the system because they didn’t hold him accountable and sad, not for him, but a little bit for his mother, because if George Gascon really did his job, this kid would still be alive in jail,” Raquel told her. Fox News.

The case gained national attention when Gascón’s office sought a sentence of five to seven months in juvenile probation camp, a punishment that is less severe than military school but harsher than summer camp.

The teen was already on felony probation for poisoning a high school girl’s drink at the time of the hit-and-run and was found to be intoxicated while driving a stolen vehicle.

The victim’s family eventually moved out of Los Angeles due to what they describe as the city’s soft policies on crime.

Heartbreaking footage of the incident showed Rachel pushing Charlie in a stroller through the Venice neighborhood as the car approached her.

She tried to pull off the road in the narrow alley, but the car veered towards her.

As horrified onlookers ran to help, the driver, Baca, sped up, only stopping when a van swerved to block his path.

During his sentencing in June 2022, it was decided that the teen, known only as KB, would serve his sentence in a “juvenile probation camp,” rather than a juvenile detention center.

Rachel, in her victim impact statement, recounted the devastating impact of the teen’s actions, who had drugs in his system at the time, but was not drunk.

‘I thought those were the last moments of our lives; we were dead,’ she wrote.

“That feeling, along with the memory of a car speeding straight at us, will haunt me forever.”

She described in vivid detail the horrific moment he lunged at her and her baby.

“As the car approached me and my son, I stopped walking and moved myself and the stroller against a building on the right hand side of the road to make sure we gave the reckless driver enough room to pass,” Rachel said.

“As the car got dangerously close to us, KB turned the wheels in our direction and accelerated while aiming to kill us.”

“I was also told that his record would be expunged when he turned 18,” he said at the time.

‘How the hell can that be? He tried to kill two innocent bystanders. Murder. And we have video evidence. My son would be dead if I hadn’t been there to protect him.

Gascon’s office said foxnews the youth camp ruling was ‘an appropriate resolution’.

‘The Sheriff’s Department agreed with the felony charges that were filed.

‘At arraignment, the juvenile admitted to two felony forcible assault likely to result in serious bodily injury and one felony hit and run.

“The Probation Department recommended, and the court sentenced the minor to youth camp for five to seven months, an appropriate resolution.”

They said that juvenile justice was meant to ‘rehabilitate young people’.

“In this case, this adolescent will be held accountable for his actions and will receive the necessary services to foster positive development to prevent him from committing crimes in the future,” the office added.

However, Rachel was still furious.

“I have never been more shocked or disappointed and, in fact, never felt more victimized than by the current system and policies of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon,” Rachel wrote.

“It breaks my heart when I think of all the other victims, less fortunate than me, whose murderers receive lenient sentences and are released from prison before their sentences are complete.”

She added: ‘George Gascon does not value my life or the life of my son, or any other victim and would rather reward monsters like KB by showing them there are no consequences for their actions.

‘DA Gascon is telling him and every other thug in Los Angeles County that it doesn’t matter if you try to murder people.

‘Why do Gascón’s policies prioritize the sustenance of rotten monsters when my son, my baby, who is unable to protect himself, is left to fend for himself and is essentially being told that his life doesn’t matter?’

Gascón, 68, was elected in November 2020 but has proven deeply unpopular for his progressive policies that critics say are soft on crime.

In August 2022, a recall petition fell just shy of the 567,000 needed to bring the motion to a vote, while still amassing around 520,000 names.