A identified member of a white supremacist gang in Orange County has been charged with homicide in reference to a high-speed police crash that killed a Vietnamese vacationer and significantly injured two others, officers introduced Thursday.
The Dec. 2 incident occurred round 7:30 p.m., when Fountain Valley Police Department officers responded to studies of arson at a house within the 18000 block of Arches Court.
The suspect, Huntington Beach resident Timothy Cole, 43, reportedly used an accelerant to set fireplace to a bush outdoors his sister’s boyfriend’s dwelling. press release from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
“The fireplace engulfed the bush in flames and unfold to the construction of the home,” the police division mentioned.
Cole’s motive for setting the fireplace, prosecutors mentioned, was retaliation for custody of his youngsters after his sister known as Child Protective Services.
The residents of the home, with the assistance of a neighbor, managed to place out the fireplace which unfold to the porch.
Timothy Cole seen in police custody after a high-speed crash that claimed the lifetime of an harmless girl in Fountain Valley on Dec. 2, 2024. (TNLA)
A car seen after being struck by a driver fleeing police in Fountain Valley on Dec. 2, 2024. (TNLA)
A chase resulted in a rollover in Fountain Valley on Dec. 2, 2024. (TNLA)
A chase resulted in a deadly crash in Fountain Valley on Dec. 2, 2024. (TNLA)
The 43-year-old was noticed two hours later moving into his white Dodge Ram pickup truck, parked close to his dwelling. When police tried a visitors cease, Cole didn’t yield and led officers on a 1.5-mile chase.
Just earlier than 11 p.m., Cole ran a crimson mild on the intersection of Ellis Avenue and Magnolia Street at almost 90 miles per hour and struck a BMW X3, inflicting his car to overturn.
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“Twenty-five-year-old Hong Ngoc Nguyen, visiting from Vietnam, was driving within the again seat and was killed,” the assertion learn. “The driver of the BMW suffered fractures to his backbone and pelvis and his passenger suffered a damaged arm.”
Cole was taken into custody with out incident and transported to a trauma middle in Long Beach.
The 43-year-old, who has suffered six earlier blows, was charged with:
One misdemeanor cost of evading a peace officer inflicting dying
Two counts of eluding a peace officer inflicting severe harm
Aggravated crime of arson by use of an accelerant
“No one might have predicted {that a} sequence of occasions set in movement by a whole stranger would flip Miss Nguyen’s American trip into an American nightmare,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer mentioned. “There are not any phrases to specific the profound sorrow for the dying of a younger girl who discovered herself in somebody’s path with complete disregard for human life.”
If convicted as charged, Cole faces a most sentence of 70 years to life in state jail. He is scheduled to seem in an Orange County courtroom on Dec. 20.
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