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Posted: 4:11 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
By Martina Valverde
El Paso County Medical Examiner's Office, El Paso Police Department, TABC
EL PASO, Texas —
Nearly a month later, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission continues to look into what bar over served a man who eventually drove through a rock wall into an embankment, killing two women.
Once El Paso police said the driver of the car was drunk, TABC launched its own investigation. Officials with TABC said several things will lead them to whoever is responsible for over serving.
On Dec. 28, police said 22-year old Miguel Vargas lost control while driving down Mesa Street just past Executive Center and slammed into a rock wall, down the embankment and into a business. Police said the car then burst into flames. Twenty-three-year-old Kim Arujo and 19-year old Idaly Reyes died.
KFOX 14 has obtained the autopsy report for Reyes. It states her body weighed 113 pounds after she was pulled from the burning car much of it had been charred. The medical examiner reported she had fourth-degree burns. It states Reyes died from multiple blunt force injuries, including a crush injury to the head, multiple fractured ribs, fracture of the dorsal spine, pulmonary contusion, and tears of the liver and spleen.
The autopsy report said Reyes was dead upon impact when the car slid down the embankment before it ever caught fire. What it doesn't state is if Reyes was drinking that night with her friends.
Police said toxicology reports could take three months to get it back. TABC officials said the toxicology reports aren't crucial to their investigation, but could strengthen their case when they find out who over served Vargas and possibly served Reyes who was underage. They said they are talking to witnesses, trying to figure out where they were. As KFOX 14 reported, a Facebook conversation between Vargas and Arujo suggested they would be at the Cincinnati Entertainment District the night of the crash.
TABC says in these investigations they also try to find a paper trail of credit card receipts.
They said once they find the source that bar could lose their license for 12 days, be forced to retrain their employees, and if the bar has a history of over serving, they could lose their license permanently.
KFOX 14 went to Nefi Armendariz's home Wednesday. Armendariz was one of the survivors. No one was home, and neighbors said that's because he was flown to the Lubbock Burn Center last week where they said he's still in critical condition. The complaint affidavit for Vargas states Armendariz has a broken sternum, broken vertebrae, multiple serious head injuries, a broken rib, and second- and third-degree burns all over his body.
The other survivor, Stacy Reyes, according to the affidavit, had a broken pelvis, broken right hand, broken right femur and broken vertebrae. KFOX 14 was unable to locate Reyes' family to find out how she is doing.
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