Charge Filed in Pedestrians’ Deaths : Misdemeanor: Police say a 19-year-old North Hollywood man was speeding in his parents’ car when it killed two sisters who were jaywalking.

The city attorney’s office has decided to file misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charges against a North Hollywood man who police say was driving a speeding car that killed two sisters as they jaywalked across a North Hollywood street.

Damion Dasaro, 19, has been ordered to appear May 2 in Van Nuys Municipal Court for arraignment on charges related to the April 8 accident that killed Emma Sauceda, 54, and her sister, Antonia Sauceda, 53, as they crossed Magnolia Boulevard near Cartwright Avenue about 9:45 p.m.

The sisters, who shared a home in North Hollywood, both died at the scene.

Deputy City Atty. Richard A. Schmidt said that Dasaro, who was not arrested at the time of the accident, was driving 62 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone.

Schmidt said Dasaro’s car left 200 feet of locked skid marks on the street. “These people were approximately 10 feet outside the crosswalk . . . but even if they were in the crosswalk it would not have altered their fate,” Schmidt said. “If anything, them being outside the crosswalk should have given him a longer time to stop.”

Dasaro, a student at Pasadena City College, was driving his parents’ car east on Magnolia Boulevard when the accident occurred. Police, who described Dasaro as “extremely remorseful,” said he was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time, and waited at the scene for police to arrive.

The city attorney’s office filed the charges Monday. At a Tuesday news conference, the Mexican consul general in Los Angeles, Jose Angel Pescador Osuna, listed the deaths of the two sisters, and what he said was the failure of authorities to charge the driver, as an example of what he described as acts of hostility and violence against Latinos and Latino immigrants that are eroding the faith of many Latinos in the U.S. justice system.