SUSPECT IN FATAL HIT-AND-RUN NAMED.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Staff Writer Police on Saturday identified a hit-and-run drunk-driving suspect who ran a red light and rammed into two cars a day earlier, killing a 33-year- old Canoga Park woman and injuring her husband and one of their children. The suspect, identified as Valentin Ayala, 29, was booked on suspicion of murder, said Officer Guillermo Campos Campos (käm`p  s), city (1996 pop. 391,299), Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil, on the Paraíba River near its mouth. , a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation). This article or section is written like an . . The victim was identified as Maria Reyes, said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Michelle Lopez of the Valley Traffic Division. Reyes and her husband were eastbound on Saticoy Street in a 1987 Sterling with their two children, ages 2 and 7, trying to make a left turn onto northbound Corbin Avenue, when Ayala ran a red light in his Dodge Ram
The Ram is a full-size pickup truck from Chrysler LLC's Dodge brand. The name was first used in 1981 on the redesigned Ram and Power Ram, though it came from the hood ornament used on pickup truck westbound on Saticoy, Campos said. Ayala first crashed into the Sterling, and then hit a car behind Reyes' vehicle before he jumped out of his truck and fled the scene on foot, police said. Reyes was pronounced dead at the scene, said Jim Wells Jim Wells MLA (born 27 April 1957) is a politician from the Democratic Unionist Party and a deputy speaker of the Transitional Assembly (Northern Ireland). Wells is one of six Assembly members for South Down. , a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. . Her husband and their 2-year-old child received minor injuries. Shortly after the 7:45 p.m. crash on Friday, Ayala called his wife, who went to the scene of the collision, where police got a description of her husband, Campos said. Police arrested Ayala a few blocks away. The suspect admitted that he had been drinking a large number of beers, and he had a blood alcohol level of 0.18 - more than twice the 0.08 legal limit, Campos said. Police said the man was booked for murder, a determination made after authorities found that he had been booked once before for DUI and was on probation. ``He was in the process of taking court-appointed classes,'' Campos said. |
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