Guilty plea in hit and run that killed Vancouver skateboarder

A Vancouver man has pleaded guilty in connection withthefatal 2016 hit and run of skateboarder Ryan Barron on Vancouver's West Side.

The B.C. Prosecution Service (BCPS) confirmed Amandeep Sohalentered a guiltyplea in B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday to one charge of failure to stop at an accident causing bodily harm.

BCPSspokespersonDan McLaughlin said a second charge of dangerous driving causing death, which waslaid at the time of Sohal's arrest in 2018, has been stayed.

In the early hours of April 17, 2016, Barron, 30 at the time, wasskateboarding with a friendon Heather Street near West 54th Avenue when he was hit. He died later in hospital.

Two days after the deadly incident, police said they hadlocated avehicle believed to have been involved in the hit and run at a home in East Vancouver. But it wasn't until two years later that charges were made public.

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Barron, who wasoriginally from Windsor, Ont.,had moved to the West Coast to findwork and was celebrating a promotion when he was killed.

A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Sept. 16.