Spring Valley man pleads guilty to La Mesa hit-and-run death of college student [Breaking]
A driver who fled who after striking and fatally injuring an 18-year-old college student last year in La Mesa pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony count of hit-and-run causing death.
Scott Douglas Satterfield, 62, of Spring Valley, admitted in El Cajon Superior Court to hitting Jok Joseph Jok with a pickup on Feb. 27, 2021. Jok Joseph Jok, who went by Michael Jok, was a 2020 graduate of La Jolla Country Day school and freshman at UC Riverside., was found shortly after 9 p.m. lying on the eastern edge of the roadway on Bancroft Drive, just south of Golondrina Drive, according to the La Mesa Police Department.Investigators determined that Satterfield was the hit-and-run driver via surveillance video that captured images of his white Ford F-150 in the area at the time of the traffic fatality, according to police.
At Satterfield’s arraignment, Deputy District Attorney David Vallero said the defendant’s vehicle was located on March 16 with a cracked windshield and other damage consistent with striking a person.at a motel in Mission Valley, La Mesa police said. He’s expected to be sentenced in April. Jok was the the son of Sudanese immigrants and a 2020 graduate of La Jolla Country Day School. He was in an accelerated bachelor’s program that
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