Videos show troopers discussing fatal DUI crash involving Las Vegas liquor store CEO
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2022
- Videos obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators show troopers investigating and discussing the fatal crash involving the CEO of Lee’s Discount Liquor, who police said was driving with a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit before colliding head-on with a pickup truck.
Imagine that, a liquor store owner driving drunk
Watch out for drunk lizards if you're in the area.
Kind of like a McDonalds or a Krispy Kreme store owner driving way too fat.
@@darylsmioth1904 Or just walking around looking like a blimp 😆
@@austindarrenor that should also be a crime...
No sympathy for drunks of any kind. All they do is kill the innocent. Drug users i feel the same way!!!
I hope the victims recover fully and enjoy life.
-On the news they said those 2 people will be fine. They were real lucky That's for sure.
@@auggie803 Cheers! 🍻
those people should be awarded the booze
@@auggie803 physically fine but possibly not mentally. I've met a few truck drivers who were in fatals and they were not normal after
Payday they were hit by a drunk driver who owned a multiple chain the liquor stores payday that's all I got to say. daddy's getting a new Corvette
I never feel bad for people who drink, drive and die. You get what you deserve. I hope the innocents were ok.
I feel sorry for the innocent victims in the other vehicles the drunk driver and/or distracted driver hits. In many cases just being in the wrong place at the wrong time can destroy your life and the life of families and friends when drivers drink and drive. DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE ! ! !
I’m shocked the drunk passed and the victims all survived.
Boozecuisers lost another one 😔🫡
Careful what you wish for .
I agree with you but usually they kill others. They always feel so terrible after they kill people but they never thought to do anything about it before hand. The driving drunk is a willful act of murder when they kill others.
It’s a worry that we are sharing the roads with these individuals every day
Be sharp out there
If you suspect a driver is drunk, call 911 or you local non-emergency number. It makes a difference!
Have been before you were thought of unfortunately 😔
I moved to Arizona and noticed it quite a bit. Wrong way signs and fines all over and still there are t-bones and weaving cars. I drive slower with a cushion to get the heck outta the way, but still aggressive. I kinda don't like the idea of riding a motorcycle around a combo of the elderly and the alcoholic either; rampant errors at twilight hours motivate for a new hobby. Best of luck avoiding bumper cars, and don't be afraid to shame a drunk out of driving.
And I hear people complaining all the time about harsh DUI laws. I say double or triple the punishment
At least he didn’t kill anyone else.
Prayers go out to the injured.🙏🙏
No, but think of the Tequila! My heart breaks
No he just permenantly injured them🙏🙏
Hope the victims in the other vehicle have a speedy recovery.
And a massive lawsuit against the liquor store.
He died in a big boom.
Judging by the van and the mechanism of injury, the seat would not have saved him. This was going to be a fatal either way. The only thing that would have saved him would habe been if he weren't stupid and drove drunk.
I think if he would’ve had his seatbelt on, he might have stood a decent chance to survive… because usually the intoxicated person fairs better than not being intoxicated because you’re very relaxed.
@@SilentStorm_5 As an firefighter/emt I have been on a few of these which is how I can usually tell whether a crash is survivable or not. While I agree with you that the drunk driver usually survives these, the damage to the vehicle suggests that even if he did wear his seat and by luck survived the crash, he would have been in extreme critical condition and would have been flown out to a major trauma center with extremely life threatening injuries and may have lasted into the night, tops. In otherwords, he wouldn't have lasted 24 hours and would have succumbed due to multi system trauma. The MOI ( mechamism of injury) is to great for this crash to be have survivable. Basically, he would definitely have lived if he were being stupid by driving drunk.
@@SilentStorm_5 adding to the emt aboves comment I volunteered for an FD and given the severity had he survived injuries, especially the a piller to the head. Just the force alone causing internal injury would have killed this guy...
I don’t see how his seat could have saved him. That seems really odd
@@AntiqueCycles seatbelt
At least this is a story where the responsible person for the crash is the only one that checked out.
No way that seat belt was going to save him
Glad he wasn't wearing one because now he'll NEVER have a chance to drive drunk and injure/ kill anyone!
@@vivian2217well there’s a reality somewhere where he survives this crash and never drinks and drives again due to the experience. That would’ve been the best outcome
@@vivian2217 it went right over your head.
@Smarter
Whoa!
93 is not a road to fool about with, it can be pretty unforgiving.
Rotten luck for the folks he hit, I hope they recover quickly and fully.
There is a crash on 93 just about every day, with many stretches 1 to 2 hours away from emergency services, what may not normally be a fatal accident, frequently becomes one.
News didn't say anything about them did they...
How could anyone tell what the front tires looked like??
Wasn’t the front tire. Officer said “right Rear flat”.
@@monikajohnson8236 Listen at 1:23 to understand his comment.
Some of the most intense damage I've seen in an accident, wow...
You didn't see the damage...
this guy been doing it for years. ua-cam.com/video/PfHMRbdxAeM/v-deo.html
Also not an accident!
Yeah arggh I'm correcting your comment too
@DANGMOE you're very ignorant.
I love how they discussed the price of the liquor multiple times when a man lost his life and 2 others are in hospital.
what ya expect. a drunk capitalist died the same way he kills his customers. circle of life
Guy wouldn't have lost his life if he wasn't an idiot
@@Orly90 no, I completely agree. Still odd that thr price of the bottles is even a point to bring up.
@@bearcats1224Yea I thought that was a really weird thing to include given the circumstances…
Poor man was heartbroken over losing his father it seems. May they both rest in peace.
This news lady almost sounds like she is excusing the drink drivers actions because of the traumatic circumstance that have occurred when he was alive?
My father also died of pancreatic cancer; but you don't see me out driving the streets 3 X over the alcohol limit (note that in Australia the BAC limit is only 0.05.....not 0.08!)
Why would you make a point of saying how much the alcohol is worth?
That was weird
Fuc* around, and find out… I’m glad the people in the other vehicle weren’t fatally injured..
You would think that the owner of a liquor store chain would know the hazards of drinking and driving. Seen the news or social media or even talked about it in a public meeting or two. But maybe not.
Most as with bar owners are likely heavy drinkers.😊
@@buzz5969 They may not have any interest in a public forum to speak about laws or something that might impact their business. You know like alcoholics anonymous or MADD. As long as they are making money.
@Thomas
MADD = Mother's Against Drunk Drivers
DAMM = Drunks Against Mad Mothers
@@johna.4334 Ha, ha, ha!!!
Bartenders and booze sellers are usually heavy drinkers, much like casino workers often get addicted to gambling.
He was so drunk that he did not know he is dead.
I imagine Lee's Discount Liquor will be having some even deeper discounts after the crash.
Killer doorbuster blowout sale! Half off!
This makes me really sad.
He and his father used to have very funny billboards around town promoting alcohol.
Overweight load
Good ones on TV also
So ironic
Life imitating art?🤔
what was sad was the broken bottles--wonder if the troopers took their share......
Man they way they tried to blame the tire.
Its a policeman's job to analyze everything about an incident. It doesnt mean he was trying to help him out. He is dead after all. If your family member died, you would want the same thing.
@@tubester4567 I hate drunk drivers with a burning passion, but I think you’re right. It would have been irresponsible for the officer to not share the information about the tire as it may have been pertinent
What a awful waste of good liquor 😢
Liquor should be outlawed!!!
@@bostonteaparty3926 no, everything l’m against should be illegal. It’s my right as a tax paying American that I get my way!
@@bostonteaparty3926 that was tried remember, it didn't work. bottom line is, you can't legislate morality
Thank you for telling us each bottle was $200. That's what all the alcoholics out there really care about. That's alcohol abuse
lol
Hater
No, we care about other things too 😑
I bartended for 3 years, this is the absolute stupidest thing a person can do. Seen way too many wrecked lives on both sides, and anybody who decides to drink and drink is a sorry POS...
@Claymore Jackson Nope. I've never had bad schitt happen. Except a dwarf incident, guns and horrible, horrible fights. I worked at a dive that was in a neighborhood next to a res. Not many people had cars in general. Most of them just walked their ass over, most of them related. It was really close knit. Also there was a bar here held liable in a dui that killed a cop I think. It's the Kon Tiki in Tucson Az. That was always in the back of my mind. But a regular/nephew did kill a woman in a Dodge dart on her way to work Sunday morning. The law had just changed here and they made an example out of his ass. He even left his 10 yo cousin in the truck and ran. Another chic had a 2week old baby, went partying, rolled her truck and killed herself. Both of those were partying in the hood and weren't even my bar. At 21 I had a decent moral compass and a conscious... But thanks for assuming every beer slinger is a POS. It looks good on you...
I will never drink and drink
@@claymorejackson7788no, that’s like blaming a gas station cashier for lung cancer for selling cigarettes
@Claymore Jackson it’s the same thing
@Claymore Jackson Well than people who sale cell phones are contributing to all the deaths caused by people texting and driving, at some point the responsibility is on the individual who chooses to put their lives and others lives at risk by their irresponsible actions.
A wise person once said, never trust tequila. Never drink and drive either.
Killed by the poison you push.
Shocking that the CEO of Lee’s Liquor would be involved in a DUI crash…
Ain't no drunk walking away from that...
I feel really bad for the people he crashed into. If you get that drunk and drive I don't feel bad for you if you die in a crash. You knew the risks, you gambled your life and you lost. No do-overs or restarts.
I feel the same way. I'm starting to feel the same way about cellphone users.
dont say that, thats so wrong....
sykeeee, i agree. got a buddy that ran over someone and killed them while drunk. was my bestfriend but fuck that, not my friend anymore.
Yup some drunk guy sideswiped me a couple months ago. Called the cops while following him. When the cops got him out the car he stood up and immediately started spinning around like the fighters in Mortal Combat do before they die. If you're that wasted behind the wheel you have serious issues
and we all know him driving drunk was the norm and best believe OTHERS knew it too
I don't know you... So I wouldn't feel bad. Drunk or not drunk
Taste of your own medicine.
The trooper sounds friendly and accommodating towards the drunk driver. ?Makes one wonder if he was drunk the night prior and got a pass.
Drinking is not worth it and drinking and driving is definitely not worth it.
Tragic losses 😢.
Safe travels every body 👍.
Tragic for the victims who were hit, hopefully they recover.
Not so tragic for the useless, over-valued crap that was being transported in the minivan. And I’m not taking about the boxes of alcohol.
You too and THANK YOU! 🤝
owns a liquir store and died in dui accident, i mean you cant make this up. its a recipe for disaster
Ummm… why does the cost of each bottle matter🤔
At least motorists no longer have to worry about this drunk on the roads anymore.
What a fantastic way to thank your father for handing down a successful family business to you.
Obviously a terrible father who neglected his family in order to grow his business.
@@kevin6293 zero evidence to support that
@Kevin
It's obvious you have some issues that need addressing.
@@johna.4334 lol how many has someone said that to you?
@@mattbrew11 no evidence except this whole video.
The folks that shout and protest to defund the police should work a traffic accident like this one, and ones worse when children with torn bodies are the casualties. The stress that our first responders are exposed to is as great as those on any battlefield. Try to imagine carrying those images in your mind home every night.
The poetic justice is staggering.
Dealer should never partake in the product!
went against the 10 crack commandments.
@@hreindustries, goes for anything you’re dealin. 🤷🏻♀️
I was 12 when a drunk drive hit me while walking in a cross walk, changed my life forever, No sympathy for people who drink and drive.
And after the father passed 3 months prior of pancreatic cancer. Booze isn’t youth serum or a good luck charm. If they ran 23 roadside vegetable stands would it have went down this way? Just hypothetically throwing it out there.
Booze eats away at your Organs slowly
If his dad died 3mos ago and he was close to him... I doubt he was chasing youth or good luck at the bottom of the bottle. He was drowning out the loss. Thank God he didn't take anyone else with him.
@@lar-zd9rs I wouldn’t overthink the comment 🤦♂️😂. It merely means it doesn’t lead to long, healthy, happy, lives generally. Drowning, making poor decisions with an inheritance, who knows 🤷♂️. But ok, whatever you think happened.
You mean you think those wet beans don’t drink? 😂😂😂
He died doing what he loved his whole life, drinking! Sad that innocent people were tied into his happy ending.
I sure am glad to know how much those bottles of booze cost! 🤦♂️
How many of those bottles made it into the trunks of the cop cars?
@@ostrich67 I’m sure it was all on the up and up! 🤦♂️
Dude wasn't trying to blame the tire and not the dui.
Have you ever spoke to someone, only to know they passed days or hours later?
Man in neon is processing his own emotions.
💯
He was also investigating. He knew he had an issue with his vehicle the night before and it’s crashed the next day. That’s a no brainer to bring up in an investigation and to check out. Even if it wasn’t likely the cause you’d be derelict not to look into it.
Glad nobody else got hurt god help his family they will feel this.
Those expensive liquor must be that good to drink but driving drunk is not ok
A study should be done to figure how a drunk driver finally managed to kill himself while driving drunk.
People need to chill out with driving here in Las Vegas driving high and drunk.
Yolo city
He was on US 93 in northern Nev.
@@austindarrenor it takes awhile to get that drunk so he just kept driving--too cheap to pay a delivery driver so he must have wanted to get away from his wife
Too many asshole drivers in Las Vegas
@@philgraves7814 And where you live I'll bet there are no asshole drivers. They all drive like Mother Theresa.
Honestly alcohol is dangerous and people don’t see it.
Because the "cost per bottle" is important here, right? 🙄
How is one expected to run a reputable liquor store without being 3x the legal limit?
Right? How else is he supposed to know if his merchandise is any good?
🤔Alonzo did say on Training Day a good Narcotics officer must have Narcotics in his system?!?! 🤷♂️
@@midwestmike613 You should see what they do to the sniffer dogs. The only reason they’re good at finding drugs is because they’re looking for their next fix! lol
LMAO... it's nice to know what the liquor cost that got ruined and that his tires were fine... sounds like he dozed off... maybe next time he won't drink and drive? I do hope the other people come out OK and sue his estate... and it's amazing that neither reporter said "DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE"... and then potentially blaming his drinking on his fathers death... WTF...
i hope the ppl he hit make a full recovery. i’m truly sad he had an issue with drinking and no one saw it around him. i know it can be hard to lose a parent but that isn’t an excuse to drive drunk
Police was concerned that the help they provided contributed to the accident. It did not in this case, but we NEED more honest and compassionate law enforcement like him.
He is allowed to talk about it and I’m glad he didn’t leave anything out
He coulda been driving with no tires and it wouldn’t have mattered with his BAC.
ummm...sounds like they're more concerned about the wasted $200 alcohol bottles. Trash reporting...sad....so sad....
I question having a blood-alcohol level as stated. Several bottles were smashed during the accident getting alcohol all over the body. His body was basically ground into hamburger meat. Any toxicology report would be tainted by such a mix. Did he have a drinking problem? Who saw him before he left for Las Vegas and was he drinking at that time? My mother once was an alcohol salesman and was involved in an accident while transporting 30 bottles of high end stuff. A lady had a medical incident and hit her while she was stopped at a light back in Atlanta GA. When the police arrived they smelled the alcohol and had the mind that it was a DUI although the other woman was quickly transported to the hospital. The put my mother in handcuffs and drove her to the hospital for blood work. The doctor could smell the alcohol all over her but on further examination told the police that she wasn’t even a little bit intoxicated. The bloodwork took days and she was booked at the time. They gave her a blow test but she was soaking wet from the broken bottles and although it cam back negative they arrested her anyway. Eventually the charges where dropped when the tests came back clean. The charges were dropped. She was able to keep her job for a while. Unfortunately Kenny’s body was pulverized into a pile of mess and had all that alcohol covering it. It doesn’t mean anything to accuse him if driving drunk. And, if he did, he’s already paid with his life. What a sad ending to a good man.
Karma for all those he killed with his poison .
A little judgmental, huh? Ok, name one time in the history of man when there wasn't some kind of intoxicant used. Name what happened when that was taken away by law. When people go to the liquor store, most times they head home to drink. Yes there are dui deaths. Yes they are preventable. But to blame it solely on the proprietor is pathetic.
What a damn shame! All that good liquor wasted, alcohol abuse if you ask me!
Damn. R.I.P. Mr. Lee.
Brave emergency workers !
The cops that think because they took a class, they are experts at recognizing impairment!
Them arresting ppl that dont do drugs or even drink is happening a lot latley and must be stopped and their boss's sticking up for them is pathetic, they are ruining sober ppl's life! Great law suit, and the dept needs to remember that!
What in the heck does the price of the Don Julio have to do with the story?
Being 3 times over is why he crashed, and that's good he did not survive.
Which tire got fixed before the crash?
Thoughts and prayers for the van.
You mean the drunk driver that endangered everyone? You guys pray for anything.
@@stellocut99 no.. the van
Lmao my liquor store owner down the street from my house is always drunk but he isn’t an idiot and wouldn’t ride around like this
@R Voit So you have a problem with the sauce. How you plan on sorting it out? Coke?
I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree, but what relevance to having a flat tire the night before is there to driving with a BAC three times the legal limit? Is Nevada that short of newsworthy events that this station is that excited at the epiphany of troopers discussing an innocuous mechanical issue? And yes, what is the importance of $200 bottles of tequila?
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WAAAAAAAA cry baby--your right,yor dum
@@dethray1000 🥸
They wanted to know if it had any part in the crash but even if it did he was still driving drunk. It's just clarifying did he fall asleep or did he get a flat tire? Doesn't really matter either way but as far as the $200 bottles some things are just interesting more than useful information
It comes off like the police were trying to come up with a way to not blame the accident on driving drunk
Why is it that, the bottles of tequila, seem to be more important than the poor people that he slammed into?? Who gives a fuck what the bottles cost?
I heard him and his dad were pretty close. Maybe he just couldn't handle it.
They'll be side by side above the fireplace this xmas.... in matching urns.
"Oh lets find out how much these bottles are worth man ! "
Wow there's a Lee's across the street from me. A liquor store owner drunk transporting liquor, who would have thunk?
And now he's with the Spirits may he rest in peace🍻🙏😔
Pieces
@@westcoastbred7745 😔👉🍻
You're the reason why I don't try to please anyone. Because half of the world if not more still believes in spirit God's demons energy that can't be seen measured or felt. Just silly. Besides he crushed into two people and injured them why would he go to heaven still? If that's not Constitution too remain in purgatory till you do something good IDK what it is
@@alphasheep99 the spirits that I was talking about were the bottles of booze that's busted on the ground and by the way I will pray for you also🙏😔
@@ronboerste1813 some people just don’t understand,,,lol
Father and son wow. Strange what happens
what are they doing with the van? I want the 2 rims from it
Imagine the thought that you tried to help someone with a flat tire and, instead of blaming his dui, you suspect the tire may have been the issue.
That was at crash site when officer said that. His blood alcohol had not been tested yet. Looking at ALL aspects is the most professional thing to do. Plus the officer is human and probably a lil stunned after helping the man just the night before.
This is all common sense...people need to think and analyze more 💯
NO disrespect either.
@@conservativehippie9736 ya. I agree. Thats just something that'll stick w ya
Guys dead... "Those bottles of wasted booze are expensive". Wtf.
Holy cow I see those stores all around
Never in my life have I heard a liquor store owner referred to as a CEO
🤣
Right, I was thinking dang he must own and operate a bunch of liquor stores across the West Coast.
@@shariamall2453 23 stores is quite a lot.
@@nicgarcia497 Shhhh.... some don't like to think or research.
when you own that many stores,ceo is a good term..
So what is the issue ?
This doesn't look like it caught fire with all that alcohol? How? That seems almost impossible to me.
How ironic is that smh
Need to make a DUI poster for high schools out of this tragedy.
1 dead 2 seriously hurt and you report the price per bottle of the liquor the was in the dead guys vehicle? Great reporting!
Rest In Pieces 💀
Some trash takes itself out
*Those who do the judging will someday be the ones being judged*
Whilst stationed at Nellis, '78-79 I learned you don't use the products you sell and do not play the tables.
Dang... both guys on the billboards are gone, no wonder I haven't seen any more billboards.
"None of the tires showed any signs of malfunction"
One of the entire wheels is missing. That's a malfunction.
She means he DID own stores his decision to drink drive ended that.
When are we going to realize that alcohol is the devil!?
Lee's discount smh
A van full of liquor, how convinent can it be for a drunk.
PURE ALCOHOL ABUSE...THOSE POOR INNOCENT BOTTLES
Why TF was it necessary to bring up the price of the tequila on the ground?? Like wtf?! That has nothing to do with this shit. And that was the list thing you say?? How about R.I.P?? Something like that?!?!
I have pity for the victims in the other car , Lee? Not so much!