Crime & Safety
Second Teenager Killed In Fiery East County Car Crash Identified
Authorities released the name of a teenage boy who died in a hospital three weeks after being gravely injured in an El Cajon car crash.
EL CAJON, CA — Authorities Wednesday released the name of a teenage boy who died in a hospital three weeks after being gravely injured in a predawn El Cajon car crash that also killed another 16-year-old.
Jiovanni Solorio Roman of San Diego was pronounced dead at Rady Children's Hospital Friday morning, the county Medical Examiner's Office reported.
Shortly after 2 a.m. on Aug. 21, Jiovanni was riding in an eastbound 2018 Honda Civic that veered off Navajo Road near Fletcher Parkway at high speed, struck a light pole, overturned and became engulfed in flames, according to police.
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The high school senior driving the vehicle, Gady Cruz of El Cajon, died at the scene of the accident, and his three passengers, including Jiovanni, were hospitalized with serious trauma.
— City News Service
