BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — She slurred her words and changed her story, but by the time Gabriela Aracely Garza finished speaking, deputies had enough evidence to arrest her as the driver who left a bicyclist dead in a hit-and-run crash in Wasco.
Garza, 21 at the time, nodded near the end of the interview when a deputy again asked if she’d been driving and hit someone, according to court documents.
She was arrested early on Nov. 13, 2023, hours after the crash that killed Gloria Soto, 41. Surveillance video and witness statements led deputies to her…