LOS ANGELES — To Dora Molina, the teenager who took her husband’s life is a danger to the public and needs to spend up to 30 years behind bars, about the same amount of time she and José Tomás Mejía were together.
She doesn’t want the assailant to enjoy his youth so soon after killing the Salvadoran immigrant, who spent his life fighting on behalf of others.
To those who knew the teen, however, the stabbing was the last step on a troubling path that started in the small room where he watched his mother die from a terminal illness; one that evolved into manic episodes and a break from reality.
