OAKLAND, Calif. – The attorney of an 18-year-old charged with felony vehicular manslaughter after the CHP pursued him and which led to the death of an innocent Castlemont math teacher in Oakland, told KTVU a completely different version of events ahead of his Monday court hearing.
Attorney Roseann Torres said that Eric Scott Hernandez-Garcia, who is “deathly afraid of police” was out last Wednesday getting snacks at the store in his mother’s Infiniti G35 when a California Highway Patrol officer started pursuing him.
The CHP has said that the teen, who was about to graduate from Aspire High School on Saturday, said the Infiniti was stolen.…