Police are searching for the driver who killed Elyzza Guajaca during a takeover.
Guajaca Family/GoFundMeStreet takeovers are the dopey offshoot of street racing where groups overwhelm an intersection or other piece of roadway and burn down their tires doing donuts or other silliness. It happens every night in cities like Los Angeles. On Christmas Day, one turned deadly.
Nursing student Elyzza Guajaca, 24, a local passerby at one L.A. takeover was hit by a black fifth-generation Camaro and killed. The driver fled on foot. Now the Los Angeles Police Department is looking for that driver and there’s a $50,000 reward to identify that person.
“You could see the smoke, you could smell it,” Cheyenne Colvin, a local resident who witnessed the incident told CBS News. “You would see how when they were doing the donuts how people would have to jump back ‘cause they got so close.”
Readers of Road & Track may seem remote from things like street racing and takeovers. But these are elements of car culture that reflect on all of us. It’s not all about new cars and classics parked on the Pebble Beach lawn.
Information about the hit-and-run Camaro driver can be reported to Crime Stoppers at 800/222-8477 or to the Los Angeles Police through the departmental website at lapdonline.org. The $50,000 reward is offered for information that assists with the arrest of the driver.
Meanwhile, the Guajaca family has a GoFundMe set up to cover expenses related to her death. That can be accessed at this link.
John Pearley Huffman Senior Editor John Pearley Huffman has been writing about cars since 1990 and is getting okay at it.
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