A Washington D.C. man who hit and killed a pedestrian after he stole Metrobus will spend more than 21 years in prison.
Keith Loving, 33, who was high on PCP during the 2016 incident, was sentenced Friday to more for than 21-and-a-half years in prison for voluntary manslaughter, armed robbery and carjacking by Judge Ronna L. Beck of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Loving pleaded guilty in July and will be placed on five years of supervised release following his prison term.
Court documents show that Loving boarded the bus in Northeast Washington on the morning of May 3, 2016. He paid his bus fare, then remained standing by the front of the bus. The bus driver noticed he was breathing heavily and not sitting down and asked Loving if he felt OK.
Loving yelled at the Metrobus employee, then pulled out needle-nosed pliers on the driver. The driver, who was parked, took the pliers out of Loving’s hands.
The four passengers in the back of the bus ran out the back door and the driver ran out the front door.
Loving got in the driver’s seat and took the empty bus for a ride. He crashed into a Seabury Connector bus but kept driving. Witnesses said
he drove the bus into oncoming traffic but did not hit anyone on the road or sidewalk.
About two minutes into the bus hijack, Loving pulled the vehicle into a gas station. Police believe he was trying to find a way out of the parking lot when he drove into 40-year-old Anthony C. Payne at a garbage pail next to a gas pump and ran him over.
Payne was taken to a local hospital but died of his injuries that day.
Loving was arrested aboard the bus at the gas station lot. He was taken to a hospital for minor injuries and told police on scene that he had smoked K-2, which is synthetic marijuana, and PCP, an anesthetic. He was positive for PCP when tested by first responders.
