Wrong-Way Crash Kills 21-Year-Old Ryan O'Shea as DHS Says Driver Was Removed Twice
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 30
Wrong-Way Crash Kills 21-Year-Old Ryan O'Shea as DHS Says Driver Was Removed Twice
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 30
Summary
Ryan O'Shea, 21, died after a wrong-way Chevrolet Silverado hit his Honda Accord head-on on Interstate 91 in North Haven late Oct. 16, with the impact pushing his car into two more vehicles.
Connecticut State Police identified the Silverado driver as 31-year-old Guillermo Carmona-Lopez of Bridgeport; he suffered life-threatening injuries, while three other people were treated for minor injuries.
DHS said Carmona-Lopez, a Mexican national, was arrested after illegally entering the U.S. in May 2013, removed, then arrested again after another illegal reentry that same month and given a final removal order.
O'Shea was a University of New Haven senior, men's club hockey captain and criminal justice student who had interned with the NYPD and hoped to join the force after graduation.
The state police reconstruction squad is still investigating the crash, which has drawn added attention because of DHS's account of the driver's prior removals and reentries.