{"id":425825,"date":"2025-12-05T06:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/425825\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:08:11","slug":"dui-driver-in-deadly-i-805-crash-sentenced-to-14-years-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/425825\/","title":{"rendered":"DUI driver in deadly I-805 crash sentenced to 14 years \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who drove under the influence and crashed into a vehicle stopped on the side of Interstate 805<\/a> in Mountain View, killing that vehicle’s driver, was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in state prison.<\/p>\n

Markus Eugene Turner, 27, pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and other charges for the May 3 crash that killed 65-year-old Temecula resident Grasiela Gomez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Gomez’s car was having mechanical issues that morning, forcing her to pull over onto the shoulder.<\/p>\n

Turner, who had smoked marijuana and had a blood alcohol content of around 0.16 percent \u2014 twice the legal driving limit in California \u2014 was speeding up to 100 mph and weaving between vehicles just before crashing into Gomez’s vehicle, Deputy District Attorney Melanie Guillen said.<\/p>\n

Gomez died at the scene of the wreck. The California Highway Patrol said Turner’s car then struck two other vehicles, causing a chain reaction crash that injured several people.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe driver faced a judge for the first time since the deadly accident. NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer has the latest on what led up to the collision and the woman killed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Turner’s defense attorney, Sammer Zakhour, asked for a sentence of five years due in part to his client’s remorse and early pleas in the case to all charges filed against him.<\/p>\n

The attorney said the case was “absolutely a tragedy” and that Turner “owned the mistake that he made” and is “as sorry as can be for what happened.”<\/p>\n

Turner also apologized to Gomez’s family during the sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n

“I know she was loved beyond measure,” he told Gomez’s family members in attendance. “I am truly sorry that her life was caught short and for the pain that my actions have caused your family.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who drove under the influence and crashed into a vehicle stopped on the side of Interstate…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":425826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,44001,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-425825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-mountain-view","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115665470333275257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425825","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=425825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}