Culver City Man Sentenced to 33 Years to Life for New Year's Eve Crash

Culver City resident Jorge Alberto Molina was sentenced to 33 years to life in state prison Thursday morning.

Molina, 29, was convicted of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed husband and wife Demetria and Kelvin Dorsey on New Year’s Eve, 2010.

Molina apologized to the couple’s family before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephen Marcus handed down the sentence.

Molina was convicted Jan. 30 of two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Demetria Dorsey, 50, and her husband, Kelvin, 54, along with a felony count of leaving the scene of an accident.

Molina, who was driving a Geo Prism, ran through a red light at Florence Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard in the Hyde Park area of Los Angeles and slammed into an Infiniti SUV being driven by Demetria Dorsey at about 11:30 p.m. Dec. 31, 2010.

Molina was being pursued by police who had seen him run another red light while heading west on Florence at Van Ness Avenue.

The Infiniti flipped over three times, authorities said. The Dorseys - who had five children ranging in age from 17 to 28 - died as a result of blunt force trauma injuries suffered in the crash.

Molina got out of his car and tried to run away, but was quickly arrested by pursuing officers. His blood-alcohol level, which was tested just over an hour after the crash, was more than two and a half times the legal limit.

Molina had previously been convicted in 2008 of DUI, and admitted to police that he had drunk a bottle of tequila and six beers before driving the night of the crash, according to the prosecutor.

“He had such a disregard for human life,'' the prosecutor said, noting that witnesses estimated that he was traveling at speeds estimated between 55 and 100 mph before the deadly crash.

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