LAKE WORTH, Texas - A good Samaritan who kept a drunk driver from leaving the scene of a fatal accident says he feels nothing but sympathy for the crash victims.A Euless police detective was killed in the crash.
His wife and children were badly injured.The man who caused it tried to run, but a witness chased after him and kept him from getting away.The good Samaritan says it was instinct and adrenaline that caused him to swing into action that day, and he says he's still affected by it.Justin Gonzalez is the good Samaritan who pinned down a drunk driver trying to run from the scene of the fatal crash he caused."I wanted him down.
I wanted him done with. I wanted the cops to be there to get him," he said.Gonzalez recalls that unfortunate day in 2021.With a bystander recording, Gonzalez is seen tackling now-convicted felon Dylan Molina and frustratingly cussing him out in the process. "I’d like to apologize for my language I was using," he said. "At that time, I just blacked out.
I had the father instincts, the dad instincts. Because two seconds later, it would’ve been my car."The video shows the crashed rental Jeep Molina was driving and people trying to break the windows of the sedan he crashed into head-on. *WARNING: The following video contains foul language.**WARNING: The following video contains foul language.* One of the videos shows the drunk driver moments after he ran a red light at an intersection and killed an off-duty Euless officer.