One month after Gavilan basketball player and beloved Gilroy teenager Andrel Gaines would have celebrated his 20th birthday, the man who was involved in the car crash that killed him last November walked free.
Stacy Lonnberg, the 51-year-old Gilroy woman who is charged with murder for allegedly driving drunk and causing a Jan. 14 car accident that killed her husband and daughter, is scheduled to enter a plea on Thursday at the Santa Clara County Superior Court at 2 p.m.
The San Jose driver whose car crashed into the Cadillac sedan that was carrying Andrel Gaines and four other friends Nov. 6 is being charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence with great bodily injury, according to California Highway Patrol spokesman Tony Tam of the San Mateo County division.
The California Highway Patrol reported it has received toxicology results on the driver in the Jan. 13 fatality on Union Road and alleged she had alcohol in her system, but an agency spokesman declined to release the suspected blood-alcohol content until the investigation is finished.
A Gilroy woman in custody on murder charges after allegedly driving drunk and causing a Jan. 14 car accident that killed her husband and daughter did not enter a plea Thursday, but she will appear in court again later this month, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
A Gilroy woman who allegedly drove drunk and killed her husband and daughter in a Jan. 14 car accident has been charged with murder, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
A 2006 graduate of San Benito High School died in a single-car accident early Friday morning on Union Road, and the California Highway Patrol arrested the 19-year-old driver on suspicion of driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter.
Gavilan College basketball player Billy Heard - Andrel Gaines’ teammate - who was driving the car when back-to-back car wrecks sent six people to the hospital, was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the accidents, according to a toxicology report obtained Monday by the Dispatch.