An Auburn man was sentenced to a little under eight and a half years in prison for an incident where he crashed into a barrier on State Route 599, causing his vehicle to fall over the side of the overpass and land onto Interstate 5.

Following a felony plea agreement, Daud Sakerie Mohamud, 31, of Auburn, received a 102-month sentence for the crime of hit and run death. This charge stems from a March 7 incident where Mohamud crashed his vehicle, killing passenger Abdiqadir Mohamed Ahmed.

According to documents, with Mohamud’s other concurrent charges of vehicular homicide, disregard for the safety of others and vehicular assault, his hit-and-run death charge had an offender score of six. That means the lowest sentence Mohamud could have received was 77 months, and the highest he could have

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