EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The 25-year-old woman who was charged with intoxication manslaughter after a wrong-way crash that killed a man earlier this week on Interstate 10 confessed to having drunk an “unknown number of shots” before the crash, according to court documents obtained by KTSM.
Woman charged with manslaughter after wrong-way crash in West El Paso
As KTSM previously reported, shortly after 10:35 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 25-year-old Britney Torres was traveling the wrong way in a Ford Mustang on I-10 West at Mesa in West El Paso. At the same time, 25-year-old Jesus Chico Jr. was traveling west on I-10 in a Honda Civic. Torres struck Chico Jr. head-on, which resulted in his death.
According to court documents, moments before the crash, an El Paso Police Department (EPPD) officer observed the Ford Mustang traveling southbound within the northbound lanes of North Desert and entered I-10 West, while traveling eastbound. Both roadways run parallel to one another.
The same officer was then flagged down by a passerby who said there was a head-on crash in the area. The officer proceeded to the crash scene and observed that both vehicles had “massive front-end damage.”…