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A Capitol Heights, Md. man pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter today for fatally striking a pedestrian in a crosswalk with a vehicle while he was under the influence of PCP.

Woodrow R. Johnson, Jr, 52, admitted to hitting 24-year-old Shamika Smith last November then driving away. From the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia:

According to the government’s evidence, on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, at about 6:10 p.m., Johnson drove his employer’s van northbound on Benning Road SE. Johnson drove at a high rate of speed and without using his headlights, although night had fallen. Johnson collided with two other cars, causing damage to those cars and injuries to their occupants, but he did not stop.

Instead, Johnson continued to speed toward the intersection of East Capitol Street. As he approached the intersection, traffic in front of Johnson waited at the red light. Johnson swerved into the opposite lanes of traffic, that is, into the southbound lanes of Benning Road, and ran the red light at East Capitol Street. As he did this, he struck and killed Shamika Smith, 24, who was a pedestrian in a crosswalk of Benning Road, crossing from east to west. Ms. Smith suffered severe blunt impact trauma and was pronounced dead on the scene.

With police following him, Johnson then crashed through a fence into a church parking lot and was apprehended. Under a plea agreement, he could face seven years in prison. Johnson will be sentenced in May.

In 2014, at least 34 pedestrians and cyclists have been hit by vehicles, at least two fatally.