OAKLAND — A San Pablo resident was formally sentenced to six years in prison for killing a 60-year-old man in a wrong-way drunk driving collision , but not until after he heard from the victim’s family and offered them an apology.

“I am sorry. Words can’t even express how sorry I am. Day in and day out, I pray for God for forgiveness,” Erik Steverson said at his Oct. 6 sentencing hearing. “Not only did I pray to God for forgiveness, I prayed to the family to forgive me.”

Steverson, 36, pleaded no contest last September to a vehicular manslaughter charge for killing Sean O’Brien, an Emeryville resident, in Sept. 6, 2021. Police said at the time that at about 1 a.m., Steverson was driving the wrong way near the Interstate 80 and Interstate 580 eastbound interchange, and collided with O

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