Overview
- The physician was sentenced Tuesday to 13 months in prison and 36 months of post-prison supervision, according to the Marion County district attorney.
- Investigators said he hit Nicolas Hernandez-Mendoza in a Woodburn crosswalk on December 26, 2024, stopped briefly, drove around the unconscious man, and arrived at his hospital about 20 minutes later.
- Hernandez-Mendoza suffered a fractured neck vertebra and pelvic fractures and died during emergency surgery when doctors could not stop bleeding from his spleen.
- The conviction was for attempted failure to perform the duties of a driver to an injured person, a hit-and-run offense that prosecutors pursued after finding insufficient evidence of criminal causation.
- Detectives identified the driver by pulling surveillance video from nearby businesses, arrested him on May 17, 2025, and the victim’s family later sought funds to return his body to Mexico.