The driver who struck and injured a 5-year-old boy in Washougal in April has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Marsha Yumi Perry, 37, of Washougal appeared Tuesday to complete sentencing involving three cases: two drug court cases, one for bail jumping and the other for second-degree burglary, and the hit-and-run injury crash, according to the prosecuting attorney assigned to the case. She had previously entered guilty pleas.
Perry was driving a pickup when she struck the boy shortly before 6:15 p.m. April 24 in the 1500 block of North 22nd Street. The child had emerged from a driveway riding a plastic tricycle, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Superior Court.
The boy was knocked off his tricycle onto the road. A witness said the driver, later identified by police as Perry, got out and checked on the boy, then fled, the affidavit said.
A Washougal police officer and his K-9 partner tracked Perry to a field south of the 1800 block of Woodburn Road, where they reportedly found her hiding in a shallow hole, court records show.
