Hilberto Velasquez-Ramirez, left, Chrishaun Moten, killed on the Fourth of July by boozing driver.
Friends write their memorials on Chrishaun’s Facebook page
From WOWT
The man accused of driving intoxicated on the wrong side of the road told Channel 6 News Friday the crash that killed a Council Bluffs teenager and injured three others was not his fault.
Police say 31-year-old Hilberto Velasquez-Ramirez of Nashville, Tennessee was driving a van on the wrong side of Veterans Memorial Highway west of the Metro Drive intersection just before 1:30 a.m. when he collided with a car.
All four people in the vehicle were taken to the hospital where 17-year-old Chrishaun Moten was pronounced dead. The driver of the car, 18-year-old Brenden Kniesly, and passenger 17-year-old Philip Moffatt were injured and remain hospitalized. Kniesly is in stable condition and Moffatt is in serious but stable condition. Sixteen-year-old Jessilyn Eisman was treated for her injuries and released.
Eisman said she took the keys from the driver before he could flee the scene. “She said you killed my buddy.” Velasquez-Ramirez admitted he had six beers, but insisted the accident wasn’t his fault. “Everything happened really fast,” said Velasquez-Ramirez through an interpreter. “He saw the lights, swerved the wheel, he hit his face.”
Velasquez-Ramirez faces charges of motor vehicle homicide, two counts of serious injury by motor vehicle and operating while intoxicated. He doesn’t have ….MORE
