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R.I.P Andy Garcia

09.17.13

You are all welcome to ride to the church were the memorial services will take place tonight to show our
respects to a fallen rider.

the memorial will take place in Boyle Heights
@: San Antonio Church
555 Fairview Ave. Los Angeles CA 90033

right of Cesar Chavez & Mission
Please call if you need more info
Ask For (ULE) Ulises Melgar
(323)501-0567

Take Candle we are going to walk after the service to his Ghost bike
about two blocks away

Story Release To Press:
Breaking news — Two cyclists injured, one killed by second driver in drunken early morning hit-and-run
September 14, 2013
I’ve just gotten word from the LAPD that a bike rider was killed, and two others injured in a hit-and-run early
this
morning.

Or rather, the victim most likely died because the driver failed to stop at the scene as required by law and
basic
human decency.

According to the press release, 28-year old Los Angeles resident Ulises Melgar, 30-year old Mario Lopez of
Bellflower and 21-year old Bell Gardens resident Luis Garcia were riding east on Cesar Chavez Avenue at
Mission
Road with two other bicyclists at approximately 2:45 am Saturday.

They were rear-ended by an eastbound 2013 Toyota Corolla driven by 21-year old Wendy Villegas, knocking
all
three off their bikes and into the street.

Villegas fled the scene, leaving her victims lying in the street. She drove to her home, where she told her
parents
she’d been in a collision, and asked them to call the police.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Just moments after Villegas ran away, 21-year old Jimmy Marroquin was driving east on Cesar Chavez in a
1994 Nissan Quest. He didn’t see Garcia lying in the roadway and struck him with his SUV, dragging his body
a
short distance.

Had Villegas stayed at the scene, she could have directed other drivers around the people lying in the street
until
they could move or help could arrive. Ot at the very least, Marroquin would have been more likely to see the
collision and drive more carefully around it.

Garcia was pronounced dead at the scene. Whether he could have survived the initial collision if he hadn’t
been
struck a second time is a matter of speculation.

However, the other two victims only suffered minor injuries, which suggests that his injuries might have been
survivable. Melgar was treated by paramedics at the scene, while Lope was taken to the ER at USC Medical
Center.

Meanwhile, Villegas confessed to police that she had been drinking and left the scene of the collision. She
was
booked for hit-and-run resulting in injury or death (CVC 20001(a)) and vehicular manslaughter while under the
influence (Penal Code 191.5).

In other words, police investigators are blaming her for Garcia’s death.

The collision is still under investigation. Anyone with information is urged to contact Central Traffic Detective
M.
Kaden at (213) 972-1837 or Officer R. Cortez at (213) 972-1846; or call the Central Traffic Division’s Watch
Commander at (213) 972-1853 during the weekend or off hours.

This is the 66th bicycling fatality in Southern California this year, and the 28th in Los Angeles County; that
compares to 23 in the county for all of last year. It is also the 12th biking death in the City of Los Angeles,
compared to five in each of the last year two years.

That’s nearly two-and-a-half times the city’s cycling death toll for 2011 and 2012, with over three months left in
the year.

And horrifyingly, nine of those 12 deaths have been hit-and-runs.

My prayers and deepest sympathy for Luis Garcia and his loved ones.

Thanks to LAPD Central Traffic bike liaison Sgt. Laszlo Sandor for the heads-up. 		 













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