Marco Gutierrez

Pursuit

Passenger Marco Gutierrez was killed in a crash while fleeing the CHP. Shortly before 1 a.m., a CHP officer tried to stop a 1991 Honda Civic on I-5 for speeding, but the driver instead exited on eastbound Mission Avenue. The driver turned onto eastbound Mesa Drive, where the Honda hit a dip at about 80 mph, fishtailed and hit a parked pickup truck. Gutierrez died at the scene. The driver, Jorge Luis Lopez, was injured in the crash. A witness claimed she heard officers laughing at the driver who was screaming for help after the crash. Lopez was charged with murder, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and with evading police.