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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 27-year-old Minneapolis man has been sentenced in a hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist on his way to synagogue last November.

On Monday, Wesley Gubbin was sentenced to 41 months in prison.

Gubbin hit and killed 61-year-old Thomas Malloy last November near the intersection of Franklin Avenue and West River Road in Minneapolis as Malloy was biking to synagogue. Gubbin turned himself into police the night of the crash.

The accident happened at about 11 a.m., and Malloy died later that afternoon at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Gubbin later pleaded guilty pleaded guilty to one felony count of criminal vehicular operation and will be sentenced on Sept. 24.

Malloy was originally from the southern Minnesota town of Kenyon but had lived in the Phelps neighborhood of Minneapolis for 20 years.

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