Northridge man sentenced to 28 years for fatal Reseda hit-and-run

Two years after he drove into a group of people in Reseda after a fight at a party, killing one and injuring two others, a Northridge man was sentenced today to 28 years to life in state prison.

Marquis Dejon Jiles, 27, was convicted March 8 of the second-degree murder in the death of Maziar Tehrani, a 29-year-old Encino resident. He was also convicted of the attempted murders of a 34-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman.

On April 20, 2008 at about 1 a.m., Jiles got into his friend's 2006 Toyota Scion and drove off following a fight at a house party near Hart Street and Mason Avenue.

But he made a U-turn and, drove back at high speed and hit the three people, who were standing in the street. He then crashed into a tree in a neighbor's front yard. Jiles then fled on foot and was arrested a short while later in the 7000 block of Delco Avenue.

Tehrani was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead from massive head trauma at 1:51 a.m.