A Long Beach man with multiple drunk driving convictions was sentenced to up to 22 years in prison on Wednesday for another drinking and driving crime that killed his childhood friend.

Christhian Velasquez Galeano, 28, pleaded guilty in June to vehicular manslaughter , driving under the influence of alcohol, leaving the scene of an accident without reporting it, false impersonation, violating the terms of his probation on a 2021 drunken driving conviction and other charges.

Prosecutors charge he was over the legal blood alcohol limit on Feb. 9 just before 5 a.m. when he crossed into oncoming traffic on Stewart Avenue in Garden City and slammed into a tree on the side of the road, smashing the rear driver's side of his 2007 Nissan Maxima.

Marco Antonio Zuniga , who was riding in the

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