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An immigrant truck driver in the country illegally faces charges after authorities say he caused a Missouri crash that killed a mother and her two young sons.
Eldar Skander, 39, was charged Monday with three counts of first-degree involuntary manslaughter in connection with the Kansas City, Missouri, collision, according to the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office. A GoFundMe campaign named the victims as 35-year-old Olga Sorbalo and her sons, 4-year-old Samir and 8-year-old Luis.
Olga’s husband, Liviu Sorbalo, and the couple’s youngest child survived, according to the fundraiser. Prosecutors said six additional people were taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.
Olga Sorbalo, 35, and her sons, 8-year-old Luis and 4-year-old Samir, died in a Missouri crash allegedly caused by an immigrant truck driver who was in the country illegally. (GoFundMe)
Daniel Cosovan, Olga’s brother, told KGW8 that the family was driving to the airport for a flight home to Washington.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a post on X that Skander is a Ukrainian national who entered the country illegally and was released under the Biden administration.
“Reckless open-border policies have resulted in countless preventable tragedies. Three more innocent American lives were lost. Two children who will never get to grow up, and a mother who will never get to watch them grow,” ICE said. “These deaths were tragic and preventable. No other family should have to endure this loss. This is our WHY.”
Eldar Skander, 39, a Ukrainian national in the country illegally, faces three first-degree involuntary manslaughter charges after a Missouri collision killed a mother and her two sons. (Jackson County Jail)
Prosecutors said traffic had slowed to a stop when the Volvo semi-truck driven by Skander continued forward at a “high rate of speed” and struck a black Honda Odyssey, setting off a chain-reaction crash. Investigators found no indication that Skander engaged the truck’s emergency brakes before impact, according to prosecutors.
A tablet displaying YouTube was found on the semi-truck’s floorboard, prosecutors said.
Jail records show Skander is being held on a $150,000 bond and has an ICE detainer. His criminal complaint lists an address in Chicago, Illinois.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on X that Illinois issued Skander a non-domiciled commercial driver’s license in March 2025. Duffy added that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is investigating both the trucking company that employed Skander and the process Illinois used to issue the license.
Olga’s family said in the fundraiser that the victims were from Vancouver, Washington.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks at a news conference updating the public on Newark Liberty International Airport at the Department of Transportation in Washington on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (Rod Lamkey, Jr./AP Photos)
“This heartbreaking loss has left their entire family, relatives, friends, and church community in deep sorrow,” the fundraiser says.