A 22-year-old Point Reyes Station man has been sentenced to five years in state prison for a 2023 car crash that killed a 16-year-old Tomales High School student. Last November, Josuep Macias Mendoza pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of the crash that killed Ramon Romo Zuniga and seriously injured Mr. Macias’s brother, Juan Macias, who was also 16 at the time. Judge Kevin Murphy imposed the sentence on Jan. 28 during a hearing in Marin County Superior Court. As the result of a plea deal, other charges related to driving while intoxicated against Mr. Macias were dismissed. The crash occurred on April 15, 2023, when the Infiniti Q60 that Mr. Macias was driving plunged off the Marshall-Petaluma Road and down a hillside, where it struck a tree and came to rest. A helicopter transported Juan Macías and Mr. Romo to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, where Mr. Romo died the next day. Mr. Macías, who also sustained injuries, fled on foot but later returned to the scene. Mr. Romo’s death shocked his classmates at Tomales High, where he was a junior, and compounded the grief of his family, who had lost their Valley Ford home in a fire one month before the crash. A week later, 150 of his classmates crowded the Catholic Church of the Assumption in Tomales for a memorial service.