(NewsNation) — The Department of Justice said Wednesday that it intends to file a felony immigration charge against an undocumented immigrant — who was scheduled to be released from prison early — after he killed two California teenagers in a 2021 DUI crash.
Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, 43, is scheduled to be released this summer after serving more than three years of a 10-year sentence.
Fox News was first to report on Ortega-Anguiano’s expected early release.
The families of Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin said they were outraged over the decision.
“It’s disgusting,” Anatoly Varfolomeev, the father of Anya, told Fox. “You have two young, unbelievable future, productive American citizens killed for nothing and that illegal immigrant who already has been deported twice is going to be released again?”
According to Fox, Ortega-Anguiano was driving under the influence at a fast speed on the 405 freeway in Orange County in November 2021 when he crashed into a car being driven by the two 19-year-olds.