HOUSTON—A 25-year-old Houston man was charged with three counts of intoxication manslaughter late Monday in a crash that killed three teenage girls last week.

Prosecutors say Sajan Timalshina was drunk behind the wheel of a Toyota Camry when he ran a red light and smashed into a Ford Excursion on July 9.

The crash occurred around 1:30 a.m. as Timalshina was headed north on the Highway 59 feeder and the SUV, which was carrying two adults and five teenagers, was headed east on the Sam Houston Tollway feeder.

Two of the teen passengers – 13-year-old Avianca Cortez and 17-year-old Rashaunda Raleigh – were ejected from the SUV and died at the scene.

A third passenger, 13-year-old Detrihanna Davis, died the next day at the hospital. They were not wearing seatbelts, police said.

The other occupants of the car were taken to the hospital in serious condition and have since been released.

According to court documents, Timalshina failed field sobriety tests at the scene. When police asked for a voluntary blood sample, Timalshina refused, but officers were able to get an involuntary sample because the accident was fatal.

That sample was taken at Ben Taub about three and a half hours after the crash and registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.075, police said.

After performing a retrograde analysis of the sample, officers determined Timalshina’s blood-alcohol level at the time of the accident was between 0.127 and 0.162.

In Texas, a person whose blood-alcohol level is 0.08 or higher is legally intoxicated.

According to court documents, Timalshina gave a voluntary statement to officers after the crash, saying that he was driving his brother’s Camry, had worked a 16-hour day and was confused about where he was going because he was tired.

Timalshina told officers he’d seen a green light farther up the road and mistakenly thought it was the nearest signal when he ran the red light and hit the SUV.

In a second statement, Timalshina told police he’d had a 12 oz. Corona at his brother’s work just before 1 a.m., but he’d only consumed a fourth of the beer.

Police said a big-rig driver, who waiting at the red light at the time of the crash, saw the whole thing.

"When the light turned green, he noticed that the Toyota Camry traveling north was traveling at a high rate of speed and he felt that he wasn’t gonna stop so he stayed where he was at," said HPD Sgt. I. Izaguirre. "But the Ford Excursion didn’t see that car..."

One of the surviving girls, 14-year-old Necie Davis, described herself going in and out of consciousness after the crash.

"I felt the car hit the other car and then after that I just blanked out and when I kind of looked around and Avianca Cortez was laying on top of me and I was trying to see if she was still here," said Davis. "I was trying to get her up, but I couldn’t really move."

Davis, who was released from the hospital late Friday, said she and her friends were on their way home from a party when they were hit.

"We always went places with each other," said Davis. "I wish I could see them one last time at least. I didn’t get to tell them I love them or anything."

Timalshina's bond was set at $150,000

Attempt #3:
You did not even answer my question.....@ Pire:
what proportion of jail time in your opinion should a
drunk driver face who
takes away lives of 3 people? In your opinion how
many years do
you think this guy should be sentenced to?

One of the numerous examples of how justice system "works" in Nepal.  

ImSarcastic:

I belive Mr. wiseguy Pire would recommend three severe slaps in the wrist. One each for the three murder counts. Or should that be just one slap because the additional slaps will most likely not add any value to the reform of the fugitive here as he would have learnt his lesson from the very first slap he would have received... That's Pire justice system for you...

ImSarcastic,

Mr. WiseGuy Pire:

Thanks for the wild guess but sorry your feeling about my marital status is plain wrong and I am not one of those who need to consider a fake marriage to get the Greencard. You may be but I can speak for only myself. Where did you read that I wanted you to be run over by the fugitive? I was sincerely hoping you would not be, please re-read my earlier post.

You are avoiding an answer to ImSarcastic question because you have no freaking clue what you want to do with the drunk driver who just slaughtered 3 innocent kids. Now that you have chosen to sound like an ultra-liberal in your views, what really would you do with him, seriously? Would you even consider sending him to jail if it was upto you? Let's face it... The guy has clean record before this incident. The guy definitely did not intentionally kill these kids... Considering this, how would you deal with him?

Pire wrote: ImSarcastic,
I was ignoring you. I control who I want to
respond and who I don't. This is my freedom. The reason why I didn't
respond to you is because I read your comments and I realized that you
are not worth responding. I hope this satisfies you.

I guess that makes him the best debater in the entire sajha nation, you bring out an argument and don't have backup to support it. you should be nominated for the sajha personality of the year.

again: ATTEMPT #4
You
did not even answer my question.....@ Pire:

what proportion of jail time in your opinion should a
drunk
driver face who
takes away lives of 3 people? In your opinion how

many years do
you think this guy should be sentenced to?

I hearby certify His Wiseness Pire Bir Bikram Shah Dev the Emperor of the reasoning and debating skills in the entire universe of sajha... Congratulations... 

PIRE JI:

U haven't replied to me too. I guess i am also not worth responding. So, what kind of a judicial system do you want?? A judicial system that could not even give justice to victims of thousands people, instead were appointed leaders of the country?? or are you talking about judicial system that lets bus drivers or truck drivers let free paying certain amount of money when they run over people intentionally (this happened to one of my fren). there are many more. You be a judge. I need answer.

Pire
Speaking from your hypothesis that Nepal's penal system is better than the US and those incarcerated people change their life after short sentencing, is so vague. Where is the data?
The crimes that occur in Nepal and US is very different in nature. They have serial killers who kill people just for fun, some have eaten human beings literally. I'm assuming that you'll not bring Nepali Maoist killing more than that and turn the subject around, hope not. There is a reason why they have some "cruel and barbaric" law. Some criminal (hard criminals) in the US absolutely do not deserve to be live, let alone being freed. The complexisty of the culture brings a different sort of crime and criminals. Have you heard the term eco-terrorist? Yeah...try to find that concept in Nepal.
BTW, drunk driving is Nepal is much safer, we barely drive more than 10m/h, so 90% accident is NON fatal.

For those people who are watching too many episode of 60 minutes, please stay within the subject matter, and it is DRUNK DRIVER =====>DEATH and nothing else.
There is plethora of studies regarding drunk driving and you can get those accurate data from your local library, police station and city hall. Unlike Pire who cannot provide where he got the data of Nepali penal, judicial system and effectiveness, which he raves about. If you have no national data to reflect your claim, then it cannot be considered a fact. Say anything you want, but to say so adamantly about it, makes you less credible.

Regarding all those injustice that happened to your fellow Nepali brother, it is feasible that justice will be served sometime in the future. There are hundreds of cases where people have been convicted after 50 years of a crime they got away with. Remember Grim Sleeper (maybe a week ago in the news) in California who got caught after 2 decades, by matching his son's DNA to the crime. American justice system can go blurry often, but it is NOT blind. Have faith.

I think this thread is going to end with personal attack(Forget about this DUI guy, who became a fugitive). We are seeing the trend trend that once you wrote something that is not logical, obviously you may try to back up little more but please do not let these hooligans run behind you and do you see that some of them still want one in one answer.
Some of us are awaiting for a chance to mock, may be in past they have been faced and it is the chance to take it out  or it is our typical character.  Some of us are very good on provoking as well keep running after him/her with personal grudge and keep poking to make the thread a joke.  You know whom I am talking about. 

So, What is the conclusion after all 107+1 comments ? Let me ask who scored the highest point.

Rewire:

I could not stop writing in this thread:

I have a simple question to you guys:

What kind of punsihment should we give to a driver in Nepal who hits a child  (accident?), and the child becomes injured and start crying for help, the driver come back and run his vehicle over the injured child and stops his crying forever? The driver pays some money to .....I do not know whom and start driving again.

Here you go, Nepali justice system.

In my view, such barbaric incident does not happen in US road. Forgive me If I am wrong.

Guys lets do something to change the law in Nepal. I can not breath well when I hear such news.

Forget the incident in Houston, that was an accident (the accident is said to be done by drunken driver?).

 

PIRE U R A PATHETIC LOSER...KISS MY A**.

Your wiseness Pire:

Once again, you fail to answer what the right punishment would be for the killer here. Regardless of how much bullsh*t you try to feed us here, you fail to apply your stupid theories on a particular clear-cut case like this. You as someone else point out are nothing but a pathetic loser, with due respect, Sir...

Pire Ji
"Recidivism" is an act of human nature. It has nothing to do with culture, countries and race.

More than 50% of drunk driver will repeat the offense again, some will do it again and again. It has been studied and documented. It's very lenient compared what really needs to happen since there is so much fatality related to it. All they do is take away your license and pay the fee. How's that not a good treat for "recidivism"? I've been drunk and drove my bike day in day out, even after being caught by traffic many many times( lots with giving bribe) back in Nepal. Everybody does that.

"Sex Offenders, pedophiles"-- their recidivism is proven by facts that they will repeat it again and again. In a perfect world, they should never be let loose, yet the law in the US allows them to get back to normal except to register with the city. How's that NOT a good deed from the part of the judicial system?
Guess what....Nepali people will do the same in those cases. The only thing that separated us from them---we do not have any data.
Same thing with murders and other serious crime. Some will stop and some won't. One of the most important thing that you're forgetting in this whole mess is- punishment is NOT only to reform but also as a payment (physical,metal or spiritual) to the victim for their loss. Put yourself in their shoes. How's 2 years in jail going to justify if your father was killed by your neighbor? Will you be fine with that?


"I wondered if there exists any study about recidivism in Nepal
and whether there is significantly higher instances of recidivism in
Nepal because we send people to shorter jail sentence"

So it is all base don "I wonder"

"Getting raw data and processing them is different matter"

To study about anything in the real world it starts with raw data (simple science), at least they have plenty in the US. Comparative analysis also brings biased view to reflect on the person's belief who is doing the study. It should be thoroughly investigated by people of the both nation for more accuracy. I do not rely on some guy's PhD paper, I need more than, few atleast.

So all and all, you're admitting there is no data to back your statement. Atleast the US has some "raw" ones. You have your rights to disagree (thank God for the Western Democracy) and I'll not fight with you over it (unlike in Nepal).But since most people posting here are on my side and you have no real world data to present, you should at-least be saying "I don't know, I COULD be wrong", at-least and NOT be so stubborn about it. Think about it.
 

Pire needed some rewiring and he just got plenty of that in the last post...This also is based on "I wonder"

Attempt #5:
You
did not even answer my question.....@ Pire:  what proportion of jail time in your opinion should a
drunk
driver face who  takes away lives of 3 people? In your opinion how

many years do  you think this guy should be sentenced to?

Pire Ji
"Recidivism" is an act of human nature. It has nothing to do with culture, countries and race. 
More than 50% of drunk driver will repeat the offense again, some will do it again and again. 

Get back to the point Pire....we were talking about someone with understanding, a capable person drinking and driving, killing and fleeing . What in your opinion then should the judicial system shoukd do if YOU were to punish this person. Lets forget about US system, i want to hear what you think is the right amount of time this person should be jailed for his crime? ok not even crime in your words accident?  Give us an estimation then....what is the right amount of time this guy should serve jail time?

"I always believe
that only god has the right to take away our life. So, if a murderer
kills a man, even me or my father, I wouldn't want him to be killed by
state because the state is not the god. That's my belief."

I rest my case. You're biased with your religious belief. I feel sorry for you.  I thought I was talking to a liberal, open minded, realistic and literate individual. There's one thing I cannot stand is people who is adamant about their religion and get stubborn defending  everything about it.  Muslim are not the only ones.
With view like that, I wish you all the best with your future endeavor. Good luck.