Overview
- Recordings capture frantic witnesses pleading for help and describing a white BMW coming “super fast” before flipping and smashing through a bus stop.
- Preliminary findings say the BMW hit a raised median curb, lost control, sideswiped a 2024 Acura Integra, then struck a bus stop, a concrete light pole and a tree on North Federal Highway.
- Detectives list excessive speed as a possible contributing factor, echoing multiple witness accounts that the BMW sped through a changing light.
- Authorities identified the victims as driver Richard Manuel Alcocer, 18, and passengers Miguel Montez, 16, and Ruben Baltazar, 15, whom relatives described as inseparable classmates linked to Blanche Ely High School.
- The Acura’s occupants, including two women and a 5-year-old child, were not injured, and investigators continue to collect statements, 911 audio and video as the probe remains open.