By David Zahniser
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES 鈥� An 18-year-old man was killed and six people were injured in a hit-and-run crash outside a Starbucks in L.A.'s Chinatown neighborhood, authorities said Saturday.
Emergency personnel responded shortly before 12:45 a.m. to the scene of a collision at Broadway and Cesar Chavez Avenue, according to a from the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The rollover crash occurred when a vehicle traveling on Cesar Chavez collided with a car heading north on Broadway, according to Officer Kevin Terzes of the Los Angeles Police Department. The 18-year-old, who had been inside the car that was hit, was pronounced dead at a hospital, Terzes said.
Police did not name the man, but family members who gathered at the intersection Saturday evening identified him as Isaac Arellanes Jr ., a student at Rio Hondo College.
Isaac Arellanes Sr . said he and his son had both been trainees at Homeboy Industries, a renowned and had received their high school diplomas on the same day earlier this year. Since then, his son had been looking to become an electrician 鈥� and he had a young child of his own, Arellanes said.
鈥淚 was very proud of him. I was tough on my son,鈥� he said, standing near a makeshift memorial lined with candles, flowers and balloons. 鈥淗e was the one I worried about most.鈥�
Family members who were gathered at the crash scene covered a bus kiosk with photos of Arellanes Jr . and shared a link to a to pay for funeral expenses.
Six others involved in the crash were also taken to a hospital 鈥� two of them in critical condition, the other four with non-life-threatening injuries, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Margaret Stewart. Two had been trapped in a vehicle and were rescued by firefighters, she said.
Footage aired by showed one of the two vehicles upside down on the sidewalk by the Starbucks鈥� outdoor patio area. The other car, on Cesar Chavez, was mangled at the curb.
A crew that responded to the crash lifted the upside-down vehicle using a crane, a video broadcast by showed.
Terzes, the police spokesperson, said the driver of the first vehicle had fled the scene and had not been apprehended.
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