Ryan Ambrosio,Jennifer Dormitorio Ambrosio Obituary, Death; – A man was ordered to spend at least 74 years behind bars for a wrong-way crash that killed a Farmington Hills couple last year.
Angel Melendez-Ortiz, of Romulus, was sentenced Friday after pleading no contest to 10 charges, including two counts of second-degree murder.
Melendez-Ortiz received 37-60 years for killing 45-year-old Ryan Ambrosio and 37-60 years for killing 43-year-old Jennifer Dormitorio Ambrosio. Those sentences will be served consecutively, so he will spend more than seven decades behind bars.
He was also sentenced to 10-15 years for two counts of first-degree fleeing and eluding police causing death, two counts of reckless driving causing death, two counts of operating a vehicle with a suspended/revoked/denied license causing death, and two counts of operating while intoxicated causing death. Those sentences will be served concurrently to the murder sentences.
In early January 2024, Michigan State Police troopers spotted a stolen pickup truck at a gas station on Eight Mile Road near the Southfield Freeway in early January 2024. Police tried to stop the truck, driven by Melendez-Ortiz, but he fled and continued on the Lodge Freeway before getting on Telegraph.
At one point during the pursuit, he shut off his headlights and made a U-turn so that he was driving south in the northbound lanes before getting back on the Lodge going the wrong way.
Melendez-Ortiz continued south in the northbound lanes before hitting a GMC Terain head-on near Civic Center, killing the Ambrosios. The couple was headed back from a date night. They had six children who were left without parents.
