Officials ID One of Two Killed in Crash Off I-580 in Pleasanton

One of the two people who died in a crash off eastbound Interstate Highway 580 in Pleasanton last week has been identified by Alameda County coroner’s officials as 19-year-old Demondre Harrison of San Francisco. The other person who was killed in the crash at about 11 p.m. on Sept. 16 near the San Ramon Road exit off I-580 was a female who hasn’t yet been identified, coroner’s bureau officials said.

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Coroner’s officials will need to make a DNA comparison to the female’s presumed family members and that process could take weeks, Graves said. California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer Steve Creel said Harrison and the female were traveling at a high rate of speed in a BMW sedan that clipped an SUV, lost control, flew off the roadway, crashed into a tree and burst into flames. The people who were in the SUV, including a mother, father and several children, weren’t injured, Creel said. The CHP is still trying to determine if drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash, he said. According to social media websites, Harrison played basketball at San Francisco’s Balboa High School where he graduated from in 2013 and was attending Clark Atlanta University.

The Seattle-based non-profit group Education First, which targets high school students in low-income communities, said on its website that it awarded Harrison a scholarship and he was the first person from his family to attend college.

—By Bay City News