'The way a terrorist drives': Teen accused of going 100 mph in 'intentional' 12-car crash that killed pregnant girlfriend denied bid to drop murder charges

A Nevada teen accused of causing an "intentional" 12-car crash with his Infiniti aft slamming into vehicles stopped astatine a reddish airy — sidesplitting his pregnant girlfriend and 2 different drivers — indispensable look execution charges, according to a Las Vegas judge.

19-year-old Jose Gutierrez, who was allegedly going 100 mph successful a 45 mph zone, was denied a bid connected Wednesday to person the charges dropped. He has been charged with execution with a deadly weapon, reckless driving resulting successful death, attempted execution with a deadly weapon, and artillery successful transportation with the deaths of Adilene Rincon, 20, Edward Garcia, 38, and Vanessa Vasquez, 25.

"The grounds of his intent tin be, arsenic we know, inferred from the circumstances," Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Nicholas Portz told the judge, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

"He drove successful a consecutive enactment straight astatine a radical of vehicles stopped astatine a reddish light, and that takes acold much willfulness, deliberation, and intent than simply pulling the trigger of a gun, which is an evident illustration of first-degree murder," the authoritative said astir the defendant, per section ABC affiliate KTNV. "There tin beryllium nary different tenable inference from his behaviour than helium intended to thrust straight into those vehicles."

Court documents filed by prosecutors accidental Gutierrez "accelerated astatine afloat throttle for astir a mile, reached speeds successful excess of 100 miles per hour, and drove straight and intentionally into a enactment of vehicles stopped astatine a reddish airy without braking oregon swerving, causing aggregate deaths and superior bodily injury," according to the Review-Journal. He is presently being held without bail connected felony charges of execution with a deadly weapon, reckless driving resulting successful death, attempted execution with a deadly weapon, and battery.

"His conduct, done the grounds of witnesses who said helium drove straight into those radical — 1 of the witnesses compared it to his clip successful the Middle East, wherever helium said it's the aforesaid arsenic watching a violent thrust a weaponry into a subject target," Portz explained astatine Wednesday's hearing, per KTNV footage from wrong the courtroom.

"He said, 'I've seen accidents before, you spot them swerving oregon attempting to debar the accident, nary of that happened with this guy,'" Portz recounted. "He drove straight, caput on, into these radical astatine afloat speed."

Prosecutors said that aft his arrest, Gutierrez was "not impaired by intoxicant oregon drugs" erstwhile helium caused the crash, according to section NBC affiliate KSNV. He was allegedly driving a metallic 2011 Infiniti G37 with Rincon, 20, his large woman riding with him arsenic a passenger. The different victims, Garcia and Vasquez, were drivers astatine the reddish light; Garcia died astatine the country and Vasquez succumbed to her injuries respective weeks aboriginal aft being hospitalized.

"The lone happening I've seen adjacent to that — I was successful 2 wars, I'm from the Middle East originally, I'm from Israel, I've seen a batch of panic termination bombers — that was the closest thing," alleged witnesser Assaf Cohen astatine a December hearing, according to KTNV. "The mode helium drove into the cars is the mode a violent drives into a subject base."

Gutierrez's defence attorney, Thomas Moskal, argued successful tribunal filings and astatine Wednesday's proceeding that the execution charges should beryllium dismissed owed to a deficiency of grounds showing the teen's intent.

"At the preliminary proceeding connected this matter, the authorities was incapable to supply immoderate grounds that would enactment a tenable inference that [Gutierrez] acted with willfulness, deliberation oregon premeditation successful the instant conveyance collision," Moskal wrote successful 1 filing, according to the Review-Journal.

"The presumption that [Gutierrez's] driving behaviour unsocial illustrates these actions is unreasonable, anemic and speculative," Moskal insisted. "Similarly, the authorities did not supply immoderate grounds of explicit oregon implied malice oregon a conscious disregard for quality lives connected the portion of the [Gutierrez]."

In tribunal connected Wednesday, Moskal argued that it "would person been antithetic if they uncovered immoderate benignant of motive oregon immoderate grounds of intent, but the azygous inference they're relying connected is, 'Judge, let this to proceed to assemblage proceedings connected first-degree execution due to the fact that helium was driving fast, helium didn't brake, and helium crashed into immoderate cars.'"

District Judge Michelle Leavitt disagreed and reportedly denied the petition to disregard Gutierrez's execution charges instantly aft the arguments were made.

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Court records obtained by KTNV amusement that Gutierrez was cited for speeding successful October aft constabulary caught him going 52 mph successful a 35 mph zone. He was besides arrested successful April for intimidating a constabulary serviceman who responded to a study of a pistillate claiming she was deed by Gutierrez.

"What's up foo," Gutierrez allegedly told the cop.

"I'll f—ing sprout you," helium said, according to tribunal documents. "I'll termination you."

Gutierrez is owed backmost successful tribunal connected March 4.