Milwaukee man sentenced in crashed that killed Muskego couple

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A Milwaukee man has been sentenced after a crash that killed a Muskego couple in April. 

Twenty-four-year-old Papa Diallo was sentenced to 35 years in prison. 

The crash happened near 27th and St. Paul on Tuesday, April 23. 

According to a criminal complaint, a Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy was on routine patrol near the Mitchell Park Domes when he attempted to stop a Ford Focus with no license plates that had drifted over the fog line. 

The deputy stated that after activating his lights and siren, the vehicle - later determined to be driven by Diallo- accelerated away from him, swerving into the opposite lanes of the 27th St. viaduct "in order to maneuver around other northbound traffic" and flee. The deputy reported seeing the Ford Focus continue to flee northbound on 27th Street toward the intersection at W. St. Paul Avenue, when the vehicle went through a red light at a high rate of speed and collided with two other vehicles. 

The complaint says video from a nearby gas station shows the Ford Focus disregard the red light and strike the driver's side of a Toyota Camry traveling westbound on W. St. Paul Avenue. The Camry then collides into a brick column at the gas station and the Ford Focus strikes a Buick Enclave stopped at the red light in the southbound lanes of 27th Street. 

Sixty-nine-year-old John Zablocki, the passenger in the Toyota Camry, died at the scene. The driver of the Camry, identified by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office as 65-year-old Barbara Zablocki, died at an area hospital. Autopsies revealed both deaths occurred due to blunt force injuries. The sheriff's office says the driver of the Buick suffered minor injuries.

Court documents show that Diallo plead guilty to two counts of 1st Degree Reckless Homicide in August.