Rascon

A 19-year-old man has been arrested and booked into the El Paso County Jail in connection with a traffic accident on Monday that killed a man and injured a 2-week-old girl, police said Wednesday.

Jose Eduardo Rascon was released Tuesday from Beaumont Army Medical Center, where he was being treated for injuries received in the collision, and he was immediately arrested on two warrants by the El Paso police’s Special Traffic Investigations Unit, a Police Department spokesman said.

Rascon, of the 900 block of Antelope Road in Canutillo, was charged with one count of manslaughter and one count of injury to a child.

An online jail log showed Rascon remained jailed Wednesday evening in lieu of a total bond of $350,000.

Police said Rascon was driving a 1992 Honda Prelude that allegedly ran a stop light and struck the driver’s side of a 2007 Ford Focus at Trans Mountain Road and North Desert Boulevard on the West Side.

The Ford’s driver, 33-year-old Rene Angel Alarcon Valdez was killed. His girlfriend, Magdalena Nevarez, was not seriously injured, but the couple’s infant daughter was hospitalized with a head injury.

The child’s name was not released by police because she is considered a victim of a crime.

Alarcon was a longtime mobile and nightclub DJ, known as DJ Peaceman.

Rascon had been at Beaumont Army Medical Center since Monday receiving treatment for injuries received in the collision.

A 16-year-old Canutillo boy riding with Rascon received minor injuries, police said.

Alarcon was one of three people killed in traffic accidents during the Labor Day weekend in El Paso.

There have been 36 traffic deaths in the city so far this year, compared with 35 at the same time last year.

Just a note: If you do a search of El Paso’s jail, you’ll find that 9 out of 10 inmates are Mexicans with more than 2 traffic offenses on their records. I counted a few Mexicans with at least 15 arrests for DUI, driving without a bogus license, and failing to appear in court. And you wonder why the traffic deaths in El Paso are so high.

Source Mexican Times

This isn’t the first time an illegal alien has been treated at Beaumont; the most famous Aldrete-Davila, the Mexican drug runner that was shot in the ass by a border patrol agent (see Ramos and Compean) was also treated at Beaumont. Mexicans are treated daily and first at Beaumont, however, military dependent I.D. card holders must wait to be seen.