Fernando Lopez Arrested and 1 Injured in Crash on 31st Street and National Avenue [San Diego, CA]

1 Detained and 1 Hurt in San Diego Accident on 31st Street

 
SAN DIEGO, CA (July 5, 2020) – On Friday, authorities arrested Fernando Lopez after a teen sustained injuries in a crash on 31st Street.
 
Kaleah Smith revealed that the driver had been harassing her since 9:30 a.m that day.
 
The suspect kept driving around the block and parked nearby when Ms. Smith and her group entered a store in Logan Heights near her house.
 
“He was blowing kisses at me and trying to talk to me when he was parked on the side of this store,” Smith revealed. “So I had to call my cousins to come up there, and they came down here.”
 
Smith confronted the 55-year-old suspect, Fernando Chavez Lopez, inside the Ideal Market at 31st Street and National Avenue at about 11:00 a.m.
 
“We were arguing with the dude inside the [store], and we left because the store man didn’t want all the commotion inside his store,” Smith stated.
 
“We went to talk to the dude on the side of the store, and he told us he was just drunk and that he would leave us alone. He tried to give us money but we didn’t want it.”
 

Additional Information about the San Diego Incident

 
However, when she came back home, Lopez parked outside of her house for a moment in an older-model gold Nissan Sentra. Once Fernando Lopez left, Smith, her fiance and two cousins came back to the Ideal Market to have a conversation to the store’s owner
 
As the group walked, Lopez tried to intentionally attempted to strike Smith, her fiance, and one of her two cousins. However, he missed and went driving up the street, making a U-turn.
 
Afterward, he came back and struck her 19-year-old cousin. Subsequently, the impact broke the passenger-side windshield as he rolled over the car.
 
Lopez escaped the scene and authorities located his car after 10 minutes on Sicard Street about three-quarters of a mile away. The police took Lopez into custody and booked him into the Central Jail.
 
Meanwhile, the teen sustained minor scrapes, bruises, and bleeding from the ears.
 
Kaleah Smith also clarified, “This is our first time seeing him.”
 
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Injuries in California Auto Accidents

 
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