REDWOOD CITY — A man was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for participating in a 2022 street race that resulted in the fiery deaths of the parents of seven-year-old twins.
Kyle Harrison, 25, had pleaded no contest to two counts of felony vehicular manslaughter and one count of felony engaging in a speed contest that results in death or great bodily injury more than two years after , which led to the teenager’s car crashing into the car of Greg Ammen, 44, and Grace Spiridon, 42.
racing a teenage boy he met at a stoplight“I can tell he’s clearly remorseful,” San Mateo County Judge Elizabeth Lee said at the sentencing hearing. “He had the maturity to make a different decision that night … He could have disengaged.”
The crash occurred Nov. 4, 2022 in Redwood City, and also injured the couple’s twin daughters, one of whom had to crawl over her father’s body to escape the mangled car. The car that crashed into the family was speeding at more than 100 miles per hour on a street with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour, throwing their car back over 100 feet, according to the prosecution’s sentencing memorandum.
Harrison’s defense attorney, Tennille Duffy, declined to comment on his sentence. Lucas King, a San Mateo County deputy district attorney, said that the family was “appreciative” and “happy” with the sentence but added that they do not “harbor the same resentment against Kyle Harrison as they do against the juvenile.”
Cesar Morales, 20, who was 17 years old when he crashed his car into Ammen and Spiridon’s vehicle during the street race, was last month after being convicted of two counts of felony manslaughter. The DA’s office had inititally sought to try Morales as an adult but the judge declined.
sentenced to 90 days of electronic home monitoring“I do think it was a fair and just sentence (for Harrison),” King said in an interview. “The family came away, I wouldn’t say happy, because there’s no happy ending to this, but as close to that as you could be. They were appreciative of the sentencing hearing today and the result.”
