Trial began Thursday for Carlo Navarro, the underage driver accused of crashing into 3-year-old Omar Awaida and his parents while they walked home from trick-or-treating in 2019.
A jury will now have to decide whether the 20-year-old driver committed murder when he ran over a 3-year-old boy and his parents while they trick-or-treated.
A defense attorney accused the Long Beach city prosecutor of delaying a court hearing in a high-profile drunken driving case, giving investigators more time to interview the suspect, but a judge said authorities did nothing improper.
A young man accused of killing three people as he drunkenly sped through a neighborhood filled with trick-or-treaters appears to have acted so recklessly that he may have committed murder, a Long Beach Superior Court Judge ruled Thursday.
On a serene Sunday evening at Los Cerritos Park, candles, altars and three new trees honored a family of whose lives were lost in a tragic crash last year on Halloween.
It’s been a year since 30-year-old Joseph Awaida, his 32-year-old wife Raihan Dakhil and their 3-year-old son Omar were killed by a suspected drunk driver at Los Cerritos Park.
Amor Amacio has previously been accused of fraud and letting alcohol get into the hands of underage drinkers, records show.
She gave Carlo Navarro a free bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey at a North Long Beach liquor store where she worked, according to Navarro’s defense attorney.
A search warrant reveals new information about the crash, including that police believe the SUV was traveling at least 71 mph when it hit the Awaida family.
Carlo Navarro stood with his hands cuffed to his waist, head slightly bowed as he answered procedural questions with more than half a dozen cameras pointed at him.
