Family of father killed by suspected DUI driver in San Ysidro demands justice

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LA-resident Abel Bermudez was driving near the San Ysidro Port of Entry last week, hoping to reunite family from Mexico when a wrong-way crash by a suspected DUI driver killed him. Now his family is demanding justice.

“I can't even explain it,” said Gabriel Bermudez, Abel Bermudez’s brother. “It’s so hard, it’s so hard to even accept it.”

Gabriel Bermudez says, Abel, who lived in Los Angeles, was driving down to Ensenada to meet with three of his kids. The plan was for them to all drive back to the U.S. and reunite with the rest of their siblings.Police said the driver, 29-year-old Fernando Goneortiz, was driving drunk. Goneortiz was transported to the hospital.

“We're gonna make sure he pays for what he did,” said Gabriel Bermudez. “I mean, he doesn't deserve to get out because he killed my brother. He made a big, big hurt for our big family.”“He was a happy man,” Gabriel Bermudez said."He was always thinking about doing better for his family."“It’s a big lesson for people who drink and drive,” said Gabriel Bermudez. “So they learn. So they see the damage, the bigger damage that he did to so many people.

 

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