Boxer who killed pregnant mom in head-on…
Boxer who killed pregnant mom in head-on collision gets 10 years in prison
Marcos Forestal-Coutin, 29, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on June 27, 2019, for the DUI collision that killed a 29-year-old pregnant woman and her unborn baby in Hemet. (Courtesy of Hemet Police Department) Marcos A. Forestal, 28, of Burbank, was arrested Sept. 10, 2018, in connection with a collision in Hemet that gravely injured a pregnant woman. (Courtesy of Hemet Police Department)
PUBLISHED: June 28, 2019 at 8:36 a.m. | UPDATED: June 28, 2019 at 12:03 p.m.
A professional boxer who killed a 29-year-old mother of four in the final term of pregnancy when he struck her vehicle head-on in Hemet while driving under the influence was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in state prison.
Marcos Forestal-Coutin, 29, had pleaded guilty in March to DUI gross vehicular manslaughter.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mark Johnson imposed the maximum sentence.
Forestal-Coutin was arrested immediately after the Sept. 10, 2018, collision that killed Krystil Kincaid of San Jacinto and her unborn daughter.
Forestal-Coutin was not injured in the wreck, which occurred about 8:30 p.m. in the 500 block Warren Road, just north of Devonshire Avenue.
According to Hemet police Lt. Eric Dickson, Forestal-Coutin was driving his BMW over the speed limit south on Warren when he veered into opposing traffic lanes. Kincaid, driving a Chrysler minivan, was unable to steer clear of the defendant's car.
The victim's husband of 12 years, Zach Kincaid, later told reporters that he was on the phone with her at the time of impact and heard the rescue as it unfolded.
The El Nuevo Herald website wrote an account of the collision based on a video Forestal posted to YouTube shortly after the collision. The website translated the video, which is in Spanish and was later removed.
"My people here appeared to me a car and I had an accident," the fighter said while showing the mass of iron into which his car was converted. "Look what happened to me, gentlemen. I got a car in the front and look what happened to my car."
But officers detained Forestal-Coutin and determined he was intoxicated and arrested him.
Kincaid was airlifted to Riverside University Medical Center in Moreno Valley, where she lingered on life support for six days, when both she and the baby died.
A separate charge for the neonatal death was not filed by prosecutors because the law only permits a filing for unborn children when the case involves murder, not manslaughter, according to the District Attorney's Office.
Kincaid was survived by an 11-year-old daughter and two sons, ages 8 and 14, as well as a 14-year-old stepdaughter.
The Cuban-born Forestal-Coutin had a 9-0 record with five knockouts. In his most recent fight, June 22, 2018, he knocked out Daniel Arturo Vega to win the World Boxing Federation international super bantamweight title.
Southern California News Group Staff Writer Brian Rokos contributed to this report.