UPDATE: Man Charged In Crash That Killed Two El Paso Teens
El Paso Police have charged the driver they say was behind a deadly crash that killed two El Paso teens late Friday night.
Hector Tellez, 32, was booked Saturday night and charged with two counts of Intoxication Manslaughter, according to a police spokesman.
According to El Paso County court records, Tellez was released on a $100,000 bond Sunday evening.
The Special Traffic Investigators Unit responded with Northeast Patrol to a three-vehicle crash at 11:30 p.m. Friday on Loop 375 between the railroad exit and spur 601.
Police said 17-year-old Mark Dobbs, who was driving a Nissan Sentra, was stalled on the outside shoulder of the eastbound lanes of Loop 375.
Cervoni and Carrillo arrived to assist Dobbs, investigators said. They were driving a Honda.
All three teens were in a band together, and had just finished playing a show at a local church, according to friends.
Police said Dobbs and Cervoni were inside the stalled Sentra while Carrillo was standing outside the vehicle when a third vehicle, a Toyota Tundra headed east, crashed into the Nissan, which then struck the Honda.
During the collision, Carrillo was struck and died at the scene.
Cervoni was pulled from the Sentra and taken to University Medical Center where he later died.
Dobbs was also injured and taken to UMC with non-life threatening injuries.
Tellez was taken to William Beaumont Army Medical Center and was booked into the El Paso County Jail upon his release.
Before the crash, Cervoni, Carrillo and Dobbs, had just finished playing a show with their band at a local church. Dobbs is the singer of the band. After the band, ‘Ancient of Days’ had played their show at Open Gate Community Church, Dobbs called his two band mates to tell them he was having car trouble.
The teens drove to give Dobbs a hand, when Tellez struck them.
A close friend of the boys, Izzy Morales, was at the hospital the night of the wreck and described the moments in the waiting room “Everyone was outside crying. Nobody believed it, cause it was Jon. He was an awesome guy. He didn’t deserve it. He never disobeyed his mom, he respected her, he never disobeyed his dad, he was always spending family time with them.”