Glendale police arrest man suspected of killing 3 after speeding through red light
Glendale police said a man has been arrested for an August crash when they say he ran a Tesla through a red light at 82 mph and killed three people in another car.
Carlos Daniel L. Gonzalez, who was 22 at the time of the crash at 83rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road, turned himself in Wednesday and was booked into jail, according to Glendale police.
He faces three counts of second-degree murder.
Just after midnight on Aug. 25, the Tesla Gonzalez was driving struck a Toyota driven by Ariyanna Alexus-Savina Parsad, 18, who also had Jazmine Esperanza Marquez, 19, and Kiyvon Corlion Martin, 18, in the vehicle.
Marquez died at the scene and Parsad and Martin died later of their injuries.
Gonzalez was taken to the hospital with serious injuries from the crash.
A blood test from the Department of Public Safety Crime Lab showed Gonzalez to have a concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive substance in marijuana, of 11 nanograms per milliliter of blood, with a margin of error of 3 nanograms, according to police.
Arizona does not have a specific limit of THC used to charge drivers with impairment as it does for alcohol, but Colorado and Washington do, and it is 5 ng/ml in those states.
Police said Parsad was driving the Toyota north through a green light while Gonzalez traveled west and ran a red light. The speed limit was 40 mph, according to police, and the data recorder from the Tesla indicated he had been traveling up to 86 mph just before the crash.
Video from the incident shows the light had been green for the northbound Toyota for about five seconds when the crash occurred.
After the collision, the cars rolled, according to court documents, and the Toyota hit the traffic pole so violently that the camera that recorded the crash moved and was no longer aimed at the intersection when it came to a rest.
Reach reporter Ryan Randazzo at ryan.randazzo@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4331. Follow him on Twitter @UtilityReporter.
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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Man charged with murder in red-light crash that killed 3 teens
