Gang Member Sentenced for Christmas Day Crash That Killed 2

A Pasadena Superior Court judge has sentenced a man to 30 years of life in prison for murder and assault with a deadly weapon almost three years after he was involved in a Christmas Day 2012 crash in Pasadena that killed an 11-year-old boy from Daly City and his 25-year-old cousin.

The sentence was handed down by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dorothy L. Shubin.

In November, a Pasadena jury found Darrell Lee Williams, 25, guilty of two counts of voluntary manslaughter and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors told the court Williams was behind the wheel of the vehicle that rolled through a stop sign near Claremont Street and Marengo Avenue during a police pursuit.

A witness for the prosecution said Williams was on parole and refused to stop because he had a firearm in his vehicle.

Williams was with his girlfriend Brittany Washington, 23, who pleaded no contest to a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in 2014 and was jailed for two years.

The SUV smashed into a mini-van where 11-year-old Kendrick Ng and his cousin Tracey Ong Tan were passengers along with three other relatives. The crash happened near the 210 Freeway onramp from Marengo Avenue.

Ng and Tan were killed and three others – Ng’s father Kenric Ng, 49; mother Irene Ng, 52; and 16-year-old sister, all of Daly City – were injured.

Williams was arrested and has remained behind bars since then.

Earlier that Christmas day, Victor McClinton, 49, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department employee and youth sports coach, was shot and killed in an near where Williams ran through the stop sign.

Police and FBI agents were in the area investigating the killing and conducting gang-suppression patrols when they chanced upon Williams in the SUV and tried to pull him over.

In the McClinton case, a Los Angeles jury continued to deliberate Friday in the case against alleged gang members Larry Darnell Bishop, 23, and Jerron Donald Harris, 28, both of Pasadena, who were accused of gunning down McClinton.

The bullet was intended for a rival gang member, prosecutors said.