GILROY
The man who killed a beloved Eagle Ridge gatekeeper while driving drunk, leaving five children motherless, pleaded no contest today to vehicular manslaughter and driving while over the legal blood-alcohol limit. He could receive up to six years in prison at a January sentencing hearing.
Lourdes Sanchez, 48, the mother of five children and a popular Eagle Ridge security supervisor died Sept. 16 after Julian Navarro Murillo’s truck slammed into her car when he attempted to make an unsafe left turn onto Day Road from Santa Teresa Boulevard. His blood-alcohol level measured 0.22, nearly three times the legal limit, according to a toxicology report. Sanchez was pronounced dead at the scene.
“She’s not coming back but he has to pay for what he did,” said Suzanna Gutierrez, 29, Sanchez’s oldest daughter.
