The driver of a Ford Mustang who allegedly ran away from a crash Monday morning that killed the Mustang's three occupants has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run.
Three people were killed in a fatal hit-and-run car crash that split their Ford Mustang in two near the Cypress Lawn Funeral Home in Colma early Monday morning.
The accident occurred at about 7:40 a.m. Monday, May 27 on Hillside Boulevard and the suspect in the incident, Paul Michael-Anthony Diaz, turned himself into Daly City police more than five hours later, according to Colma police.
Diaz, 25, of Daly City, was then taken into custody by Colma police and booked into San Mateo County Jail.
The San Mateo County Coroner’s Office identified the dead as Ruvin Abel Vazquez, Jonathan Jade Mouton and Rosa Maria Falla, all Daly City residents in their 20s.
The three victims and Diaz were in a green Ford Mustang that hit a second car, a green Honda, sending it into the Cypress Lawn cemetery, according to police.
The Mustang was cut in half in the crash, killing the three passengers. Diaz allegedly fled on foot, according to police.
The Honda’s sole occupant did not suffer serious injuries and is cooperating with investigators, police said.
The mother and an aunt of Falla were also transported to the hospital after being called to the scene and collapsing, a witness said.
The back half of the green Mustang was lodged into the brick wall that surrounds Cypress Lawn, the witness said.
The bodies were cleared from the scene by 10 a.m. but Hillside between Serramonte and Lawndale boulevards remained closed until the early afternoon.
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