COLORADO SPRINGS – A Colorado man was sentenced to 72 years in prison for a car crash that killed two people, including the former son-in-law of the Colorado Springs mayor.
Jeffrey Sloan, 37, ran a red light in Denver and crashed into another vehicle while fleeing police in a stolen car in June 2019, The Gazette reports.
Yasir Hasan, 33, died at the scene and Mark Karla, 45, suffered severe injuries and died at a hospital.
Karla, a dentist, was married for about five years to Alison Suthers, a prosecutor in the Denver District Attorney’s Office and the daughter of Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers.
Sloan, who fled the scene on foot, was convicted of two counts of vehicular homicide, two counts of assault, vehicular eluding with death and injury and leaving the scene of an accident involving death and serious bodily injury.
“No sentence can reflect the magnitude of the lives lost and their value to their families and community,” said Denver District Court Judge John Madden, who handed down the sentence Friday.
