A Circuit Court jury on Kauai found a 48-year-old man guilty of manslaughter Friday, two years after he drove drunk in a stolen truck that hit and killed a 19-year-old driver.

Former Washington state resident Cody Safadago could spend life in prison after the 2017 incident that led to the death of Kapaa woman Kayla Huddy-Lemn. A jury will decide the length of his sentence next week, the Garden Island reported.

Over the course of the trial, it was revealed that Safadago had left a Kapaa Big Save supermarket the night of the accident with a bottle of vodka. He later returned and was confronted by Kauai police, who asked him to leave.

Witnesses later saw Safadago speeding and swerving in and out of traffic on Kuhio Highway in a stolen Nissan before hitting Huddy-Lemn’s car at 88 mph.

Safadago fled the scene, leading to a foot chase with police.

“He took life away from somebody who had yet to live,” said Deputy Prosecutor Sean Van Demark. “He took all her choices away from her.”

Emmanuel Guerrero, Safagado’s attorney, conceded that Safagado was not to be admired.

“The question is not whether he’s a bad guy,” Guerrero said. “The issue is, you can only find Cody Safadago guilty if he was driving the truck — not that he ran, not that he stole a bottle of vodka.”

After just a few hours of deliberation the jury found Safagado guilty on all charges, which include felony charges manslaughter, negligent homicide, causing a fatal accident, car theft and five misdemeanors.