Local News in Brief : Drunk Driver in Fatal Collision Sentenced

A drunk driver was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in state prison for killing a man, his three children and leaving their mother a quadriplegic in a 1987 collision.

Superior Court Judge Judith Chirlin imposed the sentence on former auto mechanic David C. Hasson, 34, who pleaded guilty in October to four counts of vehicular manslaughter and one count of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Margaret Barreto-Morehouse said Hasson, while intoxicated, sped through an intersection at Hoover Street and Gage Avenue on July 3, 1987, and slammed his car into another vehicle.

Michael Magee, 25, of South-Central Los Angeles and three children, ages 3, 2, and 11 months, were killed. Magee was the natural father of two of the children and the stepfather of the third. Lydia Tucker, 19, Magee’s fiancee and the mother of all three children, was critically injured and left a quadriplegic.