A jury in San Mateo County awarded $33 million this week to twin girls whose parents were killed after being struck by a teen driver who was street racing in Redwood City in 2022.

The jury found Cesar Morales, who was 17 years old at the time of the crash, negligent and at fault for the crash that killed Greg Ammen and Grace Spiridon of San Carlos. The verdict also found Morales’ parents, Arnold Morales and Susana Salto Alvarez, liable in the crash for ignoring warning signs of their son’s driving behavior.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.