Overview

• On July 1, Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson filed charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence against Emmanuel Gonzalez Mendoza.
• The charges stem from a three-vehicle collision on Interstate 80 near Buchanan Street in Albany in the early hours of June 27.
• Investigators say the suspected intoxicated Toyota Camry driver struck Morales’s Hyundai, causing it to flip off the overpass and land upside down below.
• Daniel Morales, a 40-year-old Amazon and DoorDash delivery driver and father of three, was killed instantly while en route to his Richmond shift.
• Morales’s family and local supporters have held memorials and created a GoFundMe to honor him and demand accountability as the case moves forward.