US: Indian-origin man sentenced to life for automobile crash that killed youngsters

By Press Trust of India: A forty five-year-old Indian-origin man has been sentenced to life with out the potential of parole following his conviction on homicide prices for intentionally ramming his automobile right into a car that killed three 16-year-old boys and significantly injured three different teenagers after the children performed a “doorbell” prank on him in 2020.

Anurag Chandra, of California, was in April convicted of three counts of homicide, three counts of tried homicide, and a particular circumstance allegation of a number of murders.

It had taken the jury in Riverside County solely three hours to return responsible verdicts in opposition to Chandra, stated a July 14 press launch by the District Attorney’s Office.

The investigation revealed that Chandra had intentionally crashed his automobile into the car carrying the children.

The lethal crash occurred on the evening of January 19, 2020, on Temescal Canyon Road.

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The six teenagers had been in a 2002 Toyota Prius automobile that was pressured off the highway by Chandra, ensuing within the automobile slamming right into a tree on the east facet of the roadway.

Chandra left the scene of the crash and returned residence with out reporting what occurred.

Daniel Hawkins, Jacob Ivascu, and Drake Ruiz, all 16, had been killed. The 18-year-old driver of the Prius in addition to two different boys ages 13 and 14, had been injured however survived.

The launch stated that the boys had been having a sleepover and in the end dared one of many pals to do a “doorbell ditch,” in order that they drove to a close-by home, in response to an investigation by the California Highway Patrol.

Once there, one of many boys rang the doorbell of a house on Modjeska Summit Road and ran again to their automobile.

Chandra, who lived on the residence, chased after the boys’ car in his personal automobile.

As Chandra pursued the victims, he re-ended the Prius and sideswiped their car till they had been pressured to cease.

The boys made a U-turn to flee, nevertheless, Chandra continued his pursuit.

Ultimately, as each automobiles approached Squaw Mountain Road, Chandra elevated his velocity to 99 mph, then deliberately rammed his automobile into the again of the Prius, inflicting it to veer off the highway and right into a tree.

In a separate case, Chandra additionally pleaded responsible to misdemeanour prices of spousal battery and little one endangerment and acquired credit score for time already served.

Chandra has been in custody on the Robert Presley Detention Centre in Riverside since his arrest on January 20, 2020, in reference to the murder case.

“The lives of countless families will never be the same because of one man’s anger, callousness and outrageous conduct, and I am grateful to Judge Navarro for imposing the maximum sentence in this case,” stated District Attorney Mike Hestrin.

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