A recently released video shows the last moments before a 100 mph career criminal’s car crashed into several cars in the Northern State. Las Vegasresulting in the deaths of nine people, including seven members of the same family.
On January 29, several cars collided. Nevadadeadliest accident in 30 years.
Police said 59-year-old Gary Robinson, who ran a red light on Cheyenne Avenue and Commerce Street, caused the horrific crash.
Robinson and his Tanaga passenger Ravel Miller, 46, were pronounced dead at the scene.
The North Las Vegas Police Department released a video showing a Dodge Challenger (circled in red) crashing into several cars at high speed on January 29.
Gary Robinson’s Dodge, moving at 100 miles per hour, hurtles toward a white Toyota Sienna with seven family members who have all died.
Robinson’s Dodge is seen wrecked after a devastating crash in North Las Vegas.
The chain reaction also killed a family of seven: Fernando Yeshua Mejia, 5; Adrian Zacarias, 10; Luvia Dylenn Zacarias, 13; Brian Axel Zacarias, 15; Gabriel Mejia-Barrera, 23; David Mejia-Barrera, 25; and José Zacarias Caldera, 35.
The parents of the dead children were not in the van with them. The siblings were on their way to lunch with their adult step-siblings and uncle when the accident happened.
The North Las Vegas Police Department on Thursday released a one-minute footage of Robinson’s maroon Dodge Challenger hurtling toward a busy intersection. Las Vegas Review Magazine.
The white minivan Toyota Sienna of the Zacarias family moves in the stream of traffic. The video stops just before the impact.
In the first moments after the chain reaction, the local 911 call center was inundated with frantic calls from witnesses describing the horrific scene.
– Bodies everywhere. Adults and children. Come quickly,” one terrified bystander told the emergency dispatcher.
The disaster claimed the lives of seven family members of Erlinda Zacarias (pictured in the foreground), including (left to right) Brian Axel Zacarias, 15 (pictured next to his father); Luvia Dylenn Zacarias, 13; Adrian Zacarias, 10, and Fernando Yeshua Mejia, 5
Another eyewitness to the carnage yelled at the call, “Oh God, we need paramedics. Have a baby. He is dead.
The Zacarias family of seven had just left Craig Ranch Regional Park and were on their way to the buffet for their weekly lunch when their van was hit by Robinson’s speeding Dodge Challenger, causing debris to hit four additional vehicles, injuring four people .
The Dodge Challenger driver who caused the crash, Gary Dean Robinson, 59, pictured, from North Las Vegas, was also pronounced dead at the scene.
“We have not yet seen such a mass fatal traffic accident,” North Las Vegas Police spokesman Alexander Cuevas said at a press briefing that night.
Erlinda Zacarias, the mother of the children who died in the crash, said at the time that she and her husband “have nothing to live for.” Our world has come to an end.
Robinson had a history of speeding and reckless driving, as well as a more violent past.
According to court records, last December Robinson was charged with speeding when he exceeded the limit by 10 miles per hour.
He was scheduled to appear in Las Vegas Municipal Court on Monday for sentencing on a speeding ticket after pleading guilty.
Tanaga Ravel Miller, 46, from North Las Vegas, pictured above, died while driving a Dodge Challenger driven by Robinson.
ROP LIST ROBINSON
October 1998: Assault with a deadly weapon (felony).
January 1999: Possession of cocaine (a felony).
February 2002: Hooliganism (Misdemeanor)
January 2004: Selling cocaine (felony).
March 2004: Battery, Domestic Violence (Misdemeanor)
June 2005: Possession of drugs (felony).
November 2006: Resisting a government official, battery, car jacking (felony)
October 2008: Open container in a vehicle, driving with a suspended/revoked license (Offence)
November 2008: Battery of a police officer causing serious bodily harm, battery of a police officer/school worker (felony).
May 2017: 11-20 mph speeding.
Dec 2021: Speeding Violation, 1-10 mph speeding.
His past reveals the life of a career criminal, including allegations of assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence, drug offenses, battery, and several speeding tickets that resulted in his driver’s license being suspended.
Robinson had an extensive criminal history, according to court records dating back to 1998, when he was charged with drug possession and assault.
In 2004, Robinson was arrested for selling cocaine to an undercover Las Vegas Metropolitan Police detective.
Court documents show he pleaded guilty to possession but violated probation and was sent to jail for 30 days in 2007.
Robinson also pleaded guilty to battery in a domestic violence case in 2004.
Four years later, in November 2008, Robinson got into a fight with bailiffs in drug court after Judge Joe Bonaventure ordered him sent to prison for two days.
Robinson rushed to the judges’ bench, and the bailiffs shocked him three times with a stun gun when he tried to escape from the courtroom.
In 2008, Robinson pleaded guilty to having an open container and driving on the Las Vegas Strip with a revoked or suspended license.
And in 2017, he was charged with speeding when he exceeded the limit by 20 miles per hour.
The family of Tanagi Miller, Robinson’s passenger, told the Review-Journal that the 46-year-old had recently suffered a stroke, did not know Robinson, and had just asked for a ride because his health condition prevented him from driving.
More than a month after the crash, Robinson’s toxicology report is still pending and the National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate the crash.