Shawn Shipp, the man charged with driving drunk when he struck and killed 91-year-old Capitol Hill resident Marie Bush Fite in a May 2010 incident near Harvard and Thomas, has pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison, the Seattle Times reports:

Shawn Shipp, a convicted sex offender with a lengthy criminal record, pleaded guilty last month to vehicular homicide in connection with the death of Marie Fite on May 3.

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After backing over the elderly woman, Shipp tried to pull her out from underneath his truck. Shipp walked away from his truck as sirens approached, according to charging papers. He returned a short time later and was arrested.

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91-year-old Marie Bush Fite was walking on the sidewalk on May 3rd, 2010 in front of a parking space near Harvard and Thomas when she was hit by a truck and knocked to the ground as Shipp continued to back into the space, according to court documents. The Belmont Ave resident died of her injuries at the hospital that night. She was a few blocks from her home near Tashkent Park when she was struck.

Fite was a Seattle native, born in the city in January, 1919.