The 42-year-old driver who crashed into a motorcycle in Aurora last November and killed the rider took a deal and pleaded guilty Monday, court records show.
Jeremy Austen House pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in an agreement that dropped a first-degree murder charge, according to Arapahoe County court records.
House will spend 10 years in prison as part of the plea agreement, followed by a mandatory parole of three years, according to court documents.
The normal sentencing range for a class 4 felony is two to six years. If elevated by “extraordinary circumstances,” the range is expanded to 12 years.
House was on parole in a separate felony case at the time of the crash, according to the plea agreement.
House was driving a 2000 Buick Century near South Havana Street and East Jewell Avenue on Nov. 18, 2024, when he hit the motorcyclist and left the scene, Aurora police said.
Paramedics took the motorcyclist, 34-year-old Dorian Matthew Torrez, to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
The 10-year vehicular homicide sentence, if accepted by the judge, will run concurrently with pending sentences in two separate Arapahoe County cases, according to the agreement.
In the first case, House took another deal on Monday and pleaded guilty to second-degree motor vehicle theft. That deal dismissed a charge of first-degree motor vehicle theft.
He will be sentenced in that case on Dec. 8, the same date a judge is scheduled to sentence him for vehicular homicide.
House took a deal in August 2023 for the second case and pleaded guilty to aggravated motor vehicle theft, dropping another count of motor vehicle theft and a resisting arrest charge.
House and his codefendant, 34-year-old Alexandra Lynn Noorlun, were arrested in February in the fatal Aurora hit-and-run. The arrest came after an hours-long barricade standoff at their home in the 12200 block of East Kansas Place.
Noorlun faces three felony charges, including two counts of being an accessory to a crime and one count of tampering with evidence, according to court records.
She is next scheduled to appear in court for an arraignment hearing on Nov. 17.
