Loved ones are devastated after a DUI driver violently slams into a UPS truck, killing two people in South Los Angeles.
A vigil was held Friday night to remember the two victims.
The deadly crash happened on March 28 near Arlington Avenue and 29th Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood just before noontime.
The male driver of a speeding black BMW sedan rear-ended a parked UPS truck. The violent impact sent the sedan airborne before it collided with several oncoming cars and cars that were parked on the street.
A woman in the front passenger seat and a man in the backseat were both ejected from the BMW. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
The suspect driver tried to run away after the crash, but was captured by good Samaritans who had witnessed the collision.
“I said, ‘Hey man, where you going? You just killed some people!’” recalled Carmichael Guillemet, one of the good Samaritans. “He said, ‘Chill,’ but I said, ‘Hey man, you just killed that girl,’ and he’s like, ‘What girl?’ and was completely out of it. And I said, “How could you be running away right now?”
Guillemet was cooking for himself and his wife when we heard the crash happening outside his home.
“I heard a loud boom,” he recalled. “It sounded like a grenade, a really loud explosion.”
He immediately walked outside only to discover a gruesome scene. A large amount of auto debris was strewn across the roadway and the suspect driver was attempting to flee.