By Josh Cain
Daily Breeze, Torrance, Calif.
LOS ANGELES — A 20-year-old man was charged with two counts of murder on Wednesday, Nov. 8, after Los Angeles police accused him of being drunk while driving a luxury car that plowed into another vehicle in Northridge over the weekend, killing an off-duty officer and his passenger.
Brian David Olivarez was arrested after he was treated in a hospital following the early morning crash on Saturday, Nov. 4, at Roscoe Boulevard and Lindley Avenue, booking records showed.
Los Angeles police accused Olivarez of driving his black BMW at around 100 miles per hour when he slammed into the side of a white Infiniti begin driven by Darrell Cunningham, the off-duty LAPD officer.
Both Cunningham and a woman inside his car died at the scene. Another passenger in the car, identified as an off-duty San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy, was injured.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore said Saturday that the three victims were longtime friends.
A woman in Olivarez’s BWM was also injured.
Olivarez was booked on more than $4 million bail.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office charged Olivarez with two counts of murder, two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and one count of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
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