‘Devastated’: Los Angeles Cop Hit 19-Year-Old with His Car While Driving Drunk, Then Left Him to Die In the Street and Fled to His Girlfriend’s House Instead, Prosecutors Say

A Los Angeles cop faces charges after allegedly hitting a man while he was driving drunk, then fleeing the scene to his girlfriend’s home and leaving the victim to die in the street.

Carlos Gonzalo Coronel, 40, was charged with multiple felonies, including DUI causing great bodily injury and hit and run with permanent injury or death.

According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, the deadly collision happened at 3:41 a.m. on Feb. 1 in Tustin, California.

Prosecutors say that Coronel got behind the wheel of his pickup truck early that morning to head to his girlfriend’s house after a night of drinking with his brother-in-law…

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