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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — Merced is remembering a young antheral whose beingness was tragically chopped abbreviated aft being deed and killed by a suspected drunk driver.
28-year-old Abraham Bustos Guzman was a friend, a member and a constabulary officer.
"He was a precise caring, loving, appreciative. He had tons of friends and family, arsenic you tin see," Braulio Bustos said.
Family and friends came unneurotic to grant Abraham, who died aft being deed by a car connected Highway 99 adjacent Atwater.
His brother, Braulio, says Abraham was connected his mode location from a 10-hour displacement astir 4 a.m. connected March 16.
He pulled implicit to assistance retired the operator of a stranded vehicle.
"It didn't substance however bushed helium was, helium stopped to assistance idiosyncratic successful need," Bustos said.
The operator of that stranded vehicle, 22-year-old Sincere Collins of Atwater, was aboriginal arrested connected suspicion of driving nether the influence.
While Bustos was trying to assistance Collins, helium was deed by the operator of different vehicle, 23-year-old Yessica Partida of Merced.
Partida was besides arrested nether suspicion of DUI.
His member says helium died doing what helium loved.
"He was doing his owed diligence. He was doing his service. And, you know, that's conscionable who helium was," Bustos said.
Abraham was grooming to go a constabulary serviceman for the Merced Police Department.
Other departments, including the Gustine Police Department, gathered to grant Abraham.
Gustine Police Sergeant Greg Gilstrap says Abraham's decease has near a spread successful their hearts.
"When thing similar this happens successful a instrumentality enforcement family, it's, you know, precise tragic nary substance what agency," Gilstrap said.
