ICE Issues Detainer for Twice-Removed Mexican Man Who Killed 21-Year-Old Connecticut College Hockey Player in Wrong-Way Crash
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on November 13 that it has issued an immigration detainer for Guillermo Carmona-Lopez, a Mexican national. He allegedly drove the wrong way on Interstate 91 in North Haven, Connecticut, on October 16 and struck 21-year-old college student Ryan O'Shea's vehicle head-on. O'Shea was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ryan O'Shea was a senior at the University of New Haven and a leader on the school's club hockey team who dreamed of becoming a police officer. He was returning from a game on October 16 when a pickup truck heading north in the southbound lanes of I-91 struck his vehicle head-on, sending his vehicle into the path of two additional vehicles.
ICE said the pickup driver, Guillermo Carmona-Lopez, 41, of Mexico, had previously been removed from the United States twice and had illegally entered the country at least three times. Reentering the country after removal is a felony, ICE noted.
Acting ICE Director David J. Venturella said Ryan O'Shea was just 21 years old, a college student, a hockey player and a young man preparing for a career protecting others, and that his family should be celebrating his accomplishments and looking forward to his future instead of mourning a life tragically cut short. He extended the agency's deepest condolences to O'Shea's family, friends and teammates.
According to ICE, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Carmona-Lopez in May 2013 after he illegally entered the country, and authorities issued an expedited removal order and removed him. He reentered illegally near the Rio Grande Valley later that month and was arrested again, and a Department of Justice immigration judge issued him a final order of removal on May 30, 2013. He reentered the country at least one more time, at an unknown location on an unknown date, before the fatal crash.
Connecticut State Police continue to investigate the collision, including the circumstances that led Carmona-Lopez to travel against traffic on I-91.
(Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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