Driver Pleads Guilty in Fatal Crash

0:00It's April 29, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Kansas News Today, local news powered by AI. A California driver named Vincente Perez just pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a crash that killed a 71-year-old woman in La Nexa. Last year, Perez faces charges of reckless second-degree murder, driving under the influence that caused serious harm, hauling an open-boost container, and driving on a suspended license. Earlier this year on September 7, around 5.30 p.m., he slammed a Subaru into a Nissan Altima on college Boulevard. The impacts in both cars off the road, hospitalizing Perez, and the Altima's driver. Tragically, Susan Cameron, the elderly passenger in that Nissan, didn't make it and died right there at the scene. This guilty plea wraps up the main case after months of investigation by Johnson County prosecutors. It highlights how one bad choice behind the wheel can end a life forever. Perez heads back to court on June 30th for sentencing, a reminder that justice moves

1:01forward even if the law sticks around.