{"id":400544,"date":"2025-11-24T04:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/400544\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T04:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:11:21","slug":"teen-arrested-following-deadly-collision-in-west-phoenix-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/400544\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested following deadly collision in West Phoenix: police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; A 19-year-old is behind bars following a deadly collision in the West Valley early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">At 3:16 a.m. on Nov. 23, Phoenix Police responded to a collision near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/W+Virginia+Ave+%26+N+67th+Ave,+Phoenix,+AZ+85035\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b151099192371:0x8471de22d63ff0c6?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>67th Avenue and Virginia Avenue<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officers arrived to find one of the drivers, identified as 38-year-old Juan Andres Ortiz, with serious injuries. Ortiz was later pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Two other adults were found injured and taken to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver of the other vehicle involved was identified as 19-year-old Andy Lepe, who officers said was showing signs of impairment.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Preliminary investigation revealed that Lepe was traveling northbound on 67th Ave as Ortiz was making a left turn onto Virginia Ave from southbound 67th Ave when the two collided.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Lepe was reportedly speeding without his headlights on before the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Lepe was processed for his impairment at the time of the collision, but additional charges related to the impairment are pending toxicology results.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The teen was arrested and booked on several charges, including manslaughter, aggravated assault and endangerment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/W+Virginia+Ave+%26+N+67th+Ave,+Phoenix,+AZ+85035\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b151099192371:0x8471de22d63ff0c6?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Map of the collision location.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Phoenix Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\/west-phx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; A 19-year-old is behind bars following a deadly collision in the West Valley early Sunday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,29563],"class_list":{"0":"post-400544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-west-phx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115602724629973128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}