Last Updated on December 27, 2022 by C-CAR
A suspected drunken driver was arrested on charges related to the crash that killed Arcely Echeverria and Jordan Gomez over the weekend
The coroner’s office identified Echeverria, 24, of La Puente and Gomez, 31, of Azusa, as two of the passengers in the Acura RSX that Michael Maya, 26, of Covina, is accused of driving, while drunken, at a high speed before the 7:30 a.m. crash on Gran Avenue, just south of Virginia Avenue, in an unincorporated county area near West Covina.
The RSX slammed into parked cars killing the two, injuring a third woman in the backseat. Maya was also injured in the crash.
Echeverria died at the scene. Gomez died at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center.
