Overview
- The candlelight vigil is set for Monday, Oct. 27 at 6:30 p.m. at La Mesa Police Department headquarters and is open to the public.
- CHP says a 38-year-old La Mesa man driving a Toyota was hospitalized then arrested on suspicion of DUI, and the crash investigation remains active.
- Officer Lauren Craven, 25, was fatally struck while rendering aid at a five-vehicle collision on eastbound I-8 at Fairmount that left a Mazda 3 overturned.
- Nineteen-year-old driver De’Veonte Morris also died at the scene, and several others sustained non-life-threatening injuries, according to officials.
- A multi-agency procession Thursday escorted Craven’s remains to El Camino Memorial Park as regional leaders and law enforcement offered tributes.