TORRANCE, Calif.—An ex-con has been sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for leading officers on a pursuit that ended with a crash that killed a man and his girlfriend in Inglewood, prosecutors announced April 21.
Gustavo Ruelas, 43, pleaded no contest on April 20 to one count each of murder, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and felony evading while driving recklessly. He also admitted fleeing the scene of a vehicular manslaughter, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
He was sentenced immediately after entering his pleas.
Ruelas has prior convictions from 2003 for fleeing or attempting to elude a pursuing peace officer and from 2010 for a drug offense, prosecutors said.
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