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Wednesday, May 21, 2025 6:14AM
It's been astir 2 and a fractional weeks since family, friends, and students of 29-year-old Regino Mariscal past saw him earlier his beingness was chopped short.
MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's been astir 2 and a fractional weeks since family, friends and students of 29-year-old Regino (Regie) Mariscal past saw him earlier his beingness was tragically chopped short.
"He was ever the relation exemplary for students, helium ever cared, helium ever listened and checked successful connected radical if everyone was okay," CEO and laminitis of Restorative Justice League (RJL) Andre Griggs said.
Candles, flowers and a transverse laic connected the country of Olive Avenue and G thoroughfare successful Merced wherever Regie was killed successful a suspected DUI crash.
On the evening of May 3, constabulary accidental Regie was riding a motorcycle erstwhile he was deed and killed by Desiree Gomez of Texas.
"It's precise sad," Griggs said done tears. "It inactive hurts adjacent present that we mislaid a large young antheral astatine specified an aboriginal age."
On Tuesday, his loved ones came unneurotic for a candlelight vigil successful matching shirts to stock stories astir his life.
"He would conscionable grin and accidental each time you are strong, you've got this," a unit subordinate astatine Tenaya Middle School said.
Regie worked for the Restorative Justice League astatine Tenaya Middle School, creating a harmless abstraction for students and ever looking retired for them.
"The past words from him were looking for a pupil to lick a occupation to marque definite the pupil made it location safe. That was Regie," a unit subordinate astatine Tenaya Middle School recalled.
Some of his students affectional arsenic they remembered his impact.
"I truly admired him for that: treating everyone arsenic equals and conscionable being precise caring," 1 of Regie's students, Leilani said.
RJL is present selling those matching shirts from the vigil.
The proceeds volition spell to a assistance successful his sanction to proceed his bequest of helping students.
The suspect, Gomez, was arrested and charged with gross vehicular manslaughter portion intoxicated and driving nether the power causing injury.
According to the Merced County Sheriff's nationalist records, she volition beryllium successful tribunal connected Wednesday.
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