(L.A.) Kevin Castillo, 20, Died in an Accident

Case Number: 2023-05840

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 20-year-old Latino male.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Kevin Castillo of Pomona, California.

Manner of Death: Accident

Cause of Death: Blunt Force Injuries

RIP KEVIN CASTILLO (December 5, 2002 – May 21, 2023)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Sunday at 12:55 a.m.

LAFD sent the following alert for Exposition Park:

Fatality Traffic Collision. 12:37 a.m.
Address: 3998 S Normandie Avenue
Two-vehicle collision with two persons deceased at scene.

The decedent Castillo and a female companion were in a white BMW that was exiting a drive-thru restaurant on Normandie and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard when they were struck by a white Jeep Wrangler Rubicon driven by a man who thereafter fled the scene on foot. The suspect, Elmer Santos, 31, was later arrested at his home.

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