Crime & Safety
Culver City Man Convicted of 2nd Degree Murder in New Year’s Eve Crash
Jorge Alberto Malina could face 50 years to life in prison after being convicted Monday of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed a husband and wife on Dec. 31, 2010.
A Culver City man was convicted today of two counts of second-degree murder for driving drunk and causing a New Year's Eve wreck that killed a husband and wife.
Jorge Alberto Molina, 28, could facing 50 years to life in prison when he is sentenced on March 15. A jury also found him guilty of a hit-and-run charge for leaving the scene of the Dec. 31, 2010 crash that killed Kelvin and Demetria Dorsey.
Prosecutors said 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 before slamming into an Infiniti SUV driven by Demetria Dorsey.
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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. Dorsey, 50, and her 54-year-old husband both died as a result of blunt force trauma suffered in the crash.
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Molina got out of his car and tried to run away, but was quickly arrested by pursuing officers.
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