Officials identified 23-year-old Jeffrey Michael Gonzales, as the victim who was killed following a high-speed crash Thursday that was caused by an impaired youth.
The preliminary reports showed that Gonzales was driving a 2013 Nissan Sentra north on South Windmill Lane at 8:44 a.m. when a juvenile driver in a 2014 Chrysler Town and Country minivan went through a red light at Windmill and Torrey Pines Drive and plowed into the Sentra. Gonzales was pronounced dead at the scene.
The events leading up to the crash began a short time earlier when Clark County School District police officers tried to stop the juvenile driver’s van for “suspected narcotics-related activity” near Sierra Vista High School.
However, the minivan sped away, and police did not chase. The juvenile was subsequently driving at an “extreme speed” at the time of the collision near Canarelli Middle School. The juvenile was rushed to University Medical Center with serious injuries.
The juvenile showed signs of drug impairment and faces charges of DUI resulting in death and reckless driving resulting in death, police stated. The individual’s name has not been revealed. No other information is available.
An investigation is continuing.
February 5, 2022
Source: Review Journal
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