(KRON) — A road racer who triggered a tragic Redwood Metropolis crash that killed the dad and mom of dual ladies has been sentenced to 90 days of digital residence monitoring. Cesar Morales’ sentence was delivered Thursday in San Mateo County Juvenile Courtroom on his twentieth birthday.
Morales was 17 years outdated on Nov. 4, 2022, when the lethal crash occurred on El Camino Actual. In keeping with prosecutors, the Redwood Metropolis teen was sitting in his Mercedes at a stoplight on El Camino when a BMW being pushed by 25-year-old Kyle Harrison pulled up. The 2 drivers, who investigators mentioned have been strangers, agreed to a road race as the sunshine turned inexperienced.
The Mercedes and the BMW sped off, reaching speeds of over 80 to 90 miles per hour earlier than reaching the victims’ automobile on the roadway.
Gregory Ammen and Grace Spiridon, together with their twin 7-year-old daughters, have been driving to their San Carlos residence within the household’s Chevrolet Bolt. The household was turning left from Finger Avenue onto El Camino Actual when the 17-year-old’s Mercedes broadsided the Bolt, sending the household’s automobile into the air and off the street.
The household’s mangled automobile is seen on El Camino Actual in Redwood Metropolis on Nov. 4, 2022.
The 2 dad and mom have been killed “instantly” from the impression, prosecutors mentioned. The dual daughters, Madison and Olivia, miraculously survived the horror within the backseat.
Morales was injured within the crash and situated on the scene by responders. Harrison fled in his BMW and was discovered and arrested two weeks later.
Choose Susan I. Etezadi denied the prosecution’s request to maneuver Morales’s case to grownup courtroom in June. On Nov. 20, 2024, the choose discovered the next allegations true:
Two counts felony vehicular manslaughter
Three counts felony partaking in a pace contest and inflicting nice bodily damage
One depend partaking in a pace contest
Allegations in two counts of second-degree homicide have been discovered by the courtroom to be not true.
(Household picture)
Throughout sentencing Thursday, the victims’ household performed a five-minute video to the courtroom that confirmed Spiridon and Ammen with their two little ladies collectively at totally different factors of their lives.
Choose Etezadi finally sentenced Morales to 90 days of digital residence monitoring, following the probation division’s advice. The sentence would require that Morales keep at residence together with his dad and mom “at all times except school, medical appointments, etc.,” in line with the DA’s workplace.
Morales was launched from custody Thursday afternoon to his dad and mom.
Harrison pleaded no contest in October 2024 to 2 counts of vehicular manslaughter. He faces as much as 9 years and 4 months in state jail. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 25, 2025.
A GoFundMe supporting the orphaned ladies raised $582,787.
