Sentence Handed Down In Fatal Des Moines Hit & Run Case

The man accused of killing an elderly woman in a hit & run in Des Moines last year has been sentenced to prison. 42 year old, Isaias Flores-Morales was given a 5 year prison sentence after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and fleeing prosecution. In late January of 2020 Flores-Morales hit 71 year old, Stephanie Markert while she was walking near the campus of Drake University. Markert died about a week after the incident. Flores-Morales left Iowa after the incident, he was apprehended weeks later in Illinois.

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