Man Who Mowed Down Nuevo Woman While Her Kids Watched Sentenced

RIVERSIDE - A 46-year-old man who ran over and killed his ex-girlfriend, as well as injured her mother when she tried to intervene, in Nuevo while the younger woman's children watched was sentenced today to 29 years to life in state prison. A Riverside jury in December convicted Bun Thieng Leuk of first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon, child abuse and violation of a domestic violence restraining order for the deadly 2019 vehicular attack on 35-year-old Linda Holguin. ``The crime involved great violence, and there are no circumstances in mitigation,'' Riverside County Superior Court Judge Bernard Schwartz said before handing down the sentence. ``The defendant has expressed no remorse.'' Schwartz gave Leuk credit for time served in the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta while a
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