Overview

• Eighteen-year-old Eric Scott Hernandez-Garcia has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter and seven other felonies in the May 28 crash that killed Castlemont High School teacher Marvin Boomer.
• His defense attorney, Roseann Torres, says he was driving his mother’s Infiniti G35, not a stolen vehicle, and panicked when officers pursued him.
• The California Highway Patrol says it terminated the pursuit seconds before Hernandez-Garcia lost control and struck Boomer and his girlfriend on East 21st Street.
• Boomer’s girlfriend survived with serious injuries after he pushed her out of the path of the out-of-control car in a final act of selflessness.
• He is held without bail at Santa Rita Jail and is scheduled to enter a plea on June 20 in proceedings that have reignited scrutiny of CHP pursuit policies.