SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The California Highway Patrol says the driver who hit and killed a La Mesa police officer and a 19-year-old man on I-8 Monday night was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
The man has been identified as Antonio Abel Alcantar, 38.
The night of the incident, there was a series of crashes involving five vehicles that happened on I-8’s eastbound lanes, east of the 15. La Mesa police officer Lauren Craven arrived at the scene and started giving life-saving aid to a 19-year-old involved in one of the crashes. As she was providing aid, the 38-year-old La Mesa man driving a Toyota Camry hit her and the man…