 It's July and it's getting hot, just like the deals at Appalachian Wireless. All month, get the Samsung Galaxy S8 for just a penny with a two-year agreement. But don't wait because the deal ends soon. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. 72-year-old Paul Chico Newsom died in May 2017 from injuries suffered in a hit-and-run crash in Pike County. Today in Pike Circuit Court, the man who collided with Newsom's vehicle in that crash received the maximum sentence allowed by law. Pike Circuit judge Eddie Coleman sent its 28-year-old Jerry Shields to a maximum sentence in the 2017 hit-and-run case against Shields. I call to the agreement a suspiciously did pick up from a woman of 65 years or a government. Shields has been mostly in custody since November. He fled the scene of the accident that killed Newsom and left the state before returning to Pike County and eventually being arrested. A plea deal was offered that would have seen Shields sentence to two-and-a-half years in prison on a felony hit-and-run charge, but judge Coleman rejected the recommended sentence. On Wednesday, much to the satisfaction of Newsom's family and seemingly to the shock of Shields, who stuck by his guilty plea, a maximum allowed sentence of five years to serve was handed down. I wish to have gave you more because he took potentially 30 years of my dad's life. He got at least 30 years, but I understand that the judge gave him the max he could. And I hope that he serves the whole five years and doesn't actually ever get out on probation. Because my fear is, as soon as he gets out, he's going to do this to somebody else's family. And it's just, it's David's state. Yeah. Especially when you, right before it happened, and I think dad called me and he's like, I'll call you when I get home, son. I love you. Within 10 minutes, he's gone. News was remanded to the custody of the Pike County Detention Center. In Pike Circuit Court, Chris Anderson, EKB News.