Driver who hit sedan during police pursuit, killing 2 boys, faces 30 years in prison

An unlicensed driver who tried to evade police during a pursuit and crashed into a car in Mountain View, killing two young boys, is slated to be sentenced Thursday.

Angel Velasquez Salgado, 21, faces a sentence of 30 years to life in state prison in the deaths of brothers Malikai, 8, and Mason Orozco-Romero, 4. The boys were riding in the back seat of a sedan that the driver rear-ended, propelling it down an embankment and into a tree, where it caught fire.

Two women in the sedan, including the boys’ mother, were injured, but survived…

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