Guillermo “Bobby” Aguilar

How they died

Vehic/Purs

Bobby Aguilar and Edgar Trevino-Mendozawere driving with a friend to a pickup basketball game when their other was hit by a stolen car that ran a red light at South 48th Avenue and West Nob Hill Boulevard as it was pursued by police. Aguilar died at the scene, while Trevino-Mendoza died days later. The fleeing driver, Blake Young, was sentenced to almost 37 years in state prison in 2009 on two counts of second-degree murder and single counts of vehicular assault and second-degree theft in connection with the crash.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Guillermo “Bobby” Aguilar, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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