BUTTE — A Butte woman who is involved in the case of a hit and run that took the life of a man who was lighting fireworks on the 3 rd of July several years ago is changing her plea. Now the family of the man who was killed is speaking out.

"Austin was a loving, very kind, caring person. He never gave up, and he had so many goals and was going to make so many things happen that now he no longer can," says Brandi Edwards, the cousin of Austin Nieves.

Family seeks justice as guilty plea entered in fatal Butte hit-and-run case. Sentencing scheduled for February with a potential 10-year sentence. Woman pleads guilty in fatal Butte hit-and-run case

Edwards reads words written by her aunt, Stacey Edwards, the mother of the 23-year-old Butte man who was struck and killed on West Granite

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