18-year-old charged in Oakland chase that killed math teacher insists car wasn’t stolen: attorney

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.

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