Crime & Safety
Deadly Burlingame DUI: Man Convicted Of 2nd-Degree Murder
A 46-year-old Peninsula father of two died from his injuries at the hospital after being rear-ended on Highway 101.
REDWOOD CITY, CA — A San Mateo County jury Friday found a San Jose man guilty of second-degree murder for his role in a DUI fatality on U.S. Highway 101 in Burlingame in 2016. Luis Sale, 33, was driving drunk at the wheel of his pickup truck on southbound Highway 101 around 3:45 a.m. April 9, 2016.
He rear-ended a vehicle driven by Vivaldo Braga Veloso Jr., 46, near the San Bruno Avenue off-ramp. Veloso died after three days in the hospital. When he died, the man had two daughters, 4 and 6 years old.
Sale had already been convicted of felony vehicular manslaughter while under the influence of alcohol, felony drunk driving causing injury, felony driving with 0.08 percent blood-alcohol content and misdemeanor driving on a suspended license at the end of a 20 day trial.
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A juror left town last week for a scheduled vacation but deliberations began again Friday with an alternate juror and they returned a guilty verdict on the second-degree murder charge.
Defense attorney Peter Goldscheider could not immediately be reached for comment on his client's behalf.
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Sale will return to court for sentencing on April 27. Prosecutors said at that time the defense plans to make a motion for a new trial.
Sale remains in custody on $1.1 million bail.
A GoFundMe campaign was launched in 2016 for the victim's family. The page is here.
— Bay City News Service contributed to this report / Image of Vivaldo Braga Veloso Jr. and family via gofundme.com
