BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- A man who pleaded no contest to fatally hitting a bicyclist while driving drunk on South Union Avenue has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, prosecutors said.

Caleb Nathaniel Rodriguez, 27, was sentenced last week after pleading no contest to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, hit-and-run causing death and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury.

Shortly before 3 a.m. on March 7, 2022, Rodriguez drove a Chevy Malibu that hit 30-year-old Raven Mora as she rode south in the slow lane of South Union Avenue, south of East White Lane, according to California Highway Patrol.

She suffered fatal injuries.

Rodriguez left the scene and contacted investigators through an attorney.

On March 10, 2022, he went to the CHP Bakersfield off

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