A tragic hit-and-run incident on International Boulevard in Oakland left a 17-year-old girl dead and her mother injured. Mardenia Carrillo Lopez and her mother were struck in a marked crosswalk at about 6:30 p.m. on August 19, as reported by KRON4. The prime suspect, Agusto Matias (37), was charged with multiple felonies, including felony gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, as announced today by Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, per Alameda County District Attorney's Office.

The incident tore apart a family of regular local church members on East 12th Street. Leonel Carillo, the devastated father of Mardenia, expressed his pain through an interpreter, per KTVU, "I am very sad and desperate now," and shared the closeness he felt with his daughter, "Every time I come home, she comes straight to my arms." Mardenia's mother, Maria Lopez Aguilar, was hospitalized with a broken arm, and her memory of the tragic event was lost upon regaining consciousness in the hospital.

Matias, after fleeing the scene of the first crash, a second collision occurred where a crowd detained him until law enforcement arrived. He was arrested and charged for his role in the fatal events, according to the account of a good Samaritan named Dante Shaw, who recounted the episode to KRON4. Witnesses and good Samaritans surrounded Matias' damaged red sedan, with Shaw noting, "A lot of people in Oakland do have is a good heart. It’s a rough city, but it is what it is."

The suspected driver's past brushes with the law, including prior DUIs, casts a shadow of preventable tragedy over the event. Matias' arrest on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter, hit-and-run, and DUI added another layer to a community's longstanding safety concerns on International Boulevard. Crecencio Ramirez, founder of Radio B'Alam, told KTVU, "This is not the first accident. I've seen about three of four family members in the Mam community, pass away because of a car crash".