A Brownsville man will spend a decade in prison for drunken driving that resulted in the death of a passenger during an early morning accident in 2016, according to court documents.
A Brownsville man will spend a decade in prison for drunken driving that resulted in the death of a passenger during an early morning accident in 2016, according to court documents.
Arturo Vasquez, 21, was sentenced by the 357th state District Court on Friday morning to 10 years in the Texas Department of Corrections, court documents show. Vasquez pleaded guilty in September to intoxication manslaughter.
Vasquez, who was 19 at the time of the accident, was driving at a high rate of speed in an orange 2010 Chevrolet Camaro on March 6, 2016, when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a tree on the 1900 block of Old Port Isabel Road between 2 and 2:30 a.m., killing his passenger, 21-year-old Erasmo Avila, who died at the scene.
Authorities extracted Vasquez from the vehicle and transported him to Valley Baptist Medical Center for serious injuries. Later that morning, police arrested Vasquez at the hospital, court records show.
