Hometown News: Hit-and-Run Driver Pleads Guilty

An Amherst man has taken a plea deal in a December hit-and-run accident that killed a woman and injured one of her two young sons on Main Street. Twenty-one-year-old Christopher Tulumello has pleaded guilty to drunk driving, vehicular assault, and vehicular manslaughter for the death of 23-year-old Amanda Knowlton and the injury of her four-year-old son Isiah Ortiz. Tulumello now faces up to 15 years in prison. Tulumello allegedly sped through a red light at Main and LaSalle Avenue, struck the two and then sped off. He is free on 50-thousand dollars security bond, and must wear an ankle-monitor device.