Macrina Ocampo
Name: Macrina Ocampo
Age: 58
Gender: Female
Race: Hispanic/Latino
Date: 11/08/2009
Location: CA-101 and Glen Annie/Storke Road
Goleta, California, 93117
County: Santa Barbara
Agency: Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Pursuit
Media summary: Deputy Jeremy Rogers was on duty when he overheard a radio callout of a wrong-way driver on CA-101. Rogers responded, in an apparent violation of sheriff's protocol. Rogers entered the Glen Annie/Storke Road on-ramp and slowed to a crawl as he merged onto the highway. He failed to signal or put on his overhead lights and siren to indicate there was an emergency. Marcos Arredondo, 18, was driving south along the 101 with his two teenaged sisters and a family friend. Arredondo had to quickly change lanes to avoid hitting Rogers, which put him directly in the path of the oncoming suspect. Arredondo and the family friend, 58-year-old Macrina Ocampo, were killed in the crash. Richard Rodriguez pled guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, with three special allegations of causing great bodily injury or death, and was sentenced to 13 years in state prison.
Unique ID: 28676
News article: Link
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