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Lakewood Police Department
Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-MederosThe operator of a semitrailer who mislaid power coming down Interstate 70 into Lakewood 2 years agone and slammed into stopped traffic, sidesplitting 4 people, was convicted Friday of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault.
The assemblage recovered Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 25, blameworthy connected six counts of vehicular homicide, six counts of first-degree assault, 10 counts of attempted first-degree assault, six counts of careless driving and 1 number of reckless driving.
The jurors, however, acquitted Aguilera-Mederos connected an further 15 counts of attempted first-degree assault.
Following the speechmaking of the verdict, Aguilera-Mederos was taken into custody. He faces decades successful situation erstwhile helium is sentenced connected Dec. 13.
The fiery April 25, 2019, clang killed Miguel Angel Lamas Arellano, 24, William Bailey, 67, Doyle Harrison, 61, and Stanley Politano, 69. Six others were injured.
On that April day, Aguilera-Mederos’ semitrailer afloat of lumber barreled down I-70 astatine speeds successful excess of 85 mph, forcing different vehicles disconnected the roadworthy earlier smashing into standstill postulation nether a span adjacent Colorado Mills Parkway successful Lakewood.
The clang ignited fires arsenic the lumber connected Aguilera-Mederos’ motortruck ignited, with temperatures connected the road reaching much than 2,500 degrees, authorities said.
Aguilera-Mederos testified this week that, with his brakes failing, helium attempted to deed the borderline of a parked 18-wheeler’s trailer to dilatory down, past tried to steer toward a abstraction betwixt traffic.
“But erstwhile I deed it, I was incapable to power anything,” helium testified. “I thought, ‘Dear God, don’t fto thing atrocious happen.’ At the infinitesimal of my impact, I closed my eyes and I hugged the wheel.”
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