An unlicensed driver who tried to evade police during a high-speed pursuit and crashed into a family’s car in Mountain View, killing two young boys in the other vehicle, was sentenced Thursday to 30 years to life in state prison.

Angel Velasquez Salgado, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder, plus other charges, for the Dec. 8, 2023, crash on an Interstate 805 off-ramp that killed brothers Malikai, 8, and Mason Orozco-Romero, 4.

The boys were riding in the back seat of a sedan that was rear-ended, propelled down an embankment and into a tree, where it caught fire. Two women in the victims’ vehicle, including the boys’ mother, were injured but survived the crash.

According to testimony from a three-day preliminary hearing held last year, the officers who pursued Salgado first took n

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