Family of the crash victim, killed by Bishop Gorman basketball. Dishes

Ann Marie Echevarria said she was depressed after a bishop Gorman basketball killed her husband in an accident in 2020 and served 56 days in prison.

A plea meant that Zaon Collins was not brought to trial criminal because of the crash, in which he was guilty of being guilty of rectory, which led to a death and a number of vehicles.

Collins was sentenced to three months in prison in 2023 and was sentenced to three years of probation, but was released for 56 days after submitting himself to start the sentence.

“Fifty -six days are not justice,” said Echevarria on Thursday.

Echeverria and her son Eric Echevarria Jr. Collins sued in 2021 and claimed that they were on the right death and negligence of the death of their husband, the 52-year-old Eric Echevarria.

The civil process is over, possibly already the next week, and on Thursday the widow and her son told the jury of the man they lost.

The Clark County public prosecutor did not answer a comment on Thursday evening.

Ann Marie Echevarria, who was divorced and had four children, met her future husband, a Custodaner from Clark County School District when he worked at the school who visited her son.

Sparks flew and a “hurricane” romance began, she said. “It was as if God sent this man down to me.”

The couple married in 2006 and Eric Echevarria proved to be a good provider and great father for their children, she said. She believed that they would be together for the rest of her life.

When they had a child together, Eric Echevarria was enthusiastic, she said, adding: “He spoiled Eric.”

On the day of the crash, she said she was in Albertson when she felt something was wrong.

“I felt that something left my body,” she said. She called her son, who said his father had left to get food, but has not yet returned.

When she went to the hospital, she said that the employees told her: “He is gone.”

“I said, 'Where did he go?',” She said. “I couldn't wrap my head for it.”

As a result, she said: “I was shocked and just wanted to crawl in my bed and not wake up.”

Eric Echevarria Jr., now an 18-year-old senior at the Sierra Vista High School, said that he doesn't talk much about losing his father, but thinks of him every day.

He remembered his father as a practical father who joined the foils with the consequences and played games with him at Arcades.

“He treated everyone with kindness,” said the son, adding that his father was someone who always held his word and encouraged him to cut off well at school.

When his father died, he lost the person who led him, he said.

He said he didn't remember much about the day of the crash, except that his mother screamed and people who cry in the hospital.

At least one juror seemed to cry when he said.

His mother said her son was not going to drive and was afraid of the highway. He changed, she said and “very closed”.

Collins, a Star UnlV scrutin that played in Fresno State Basketball last season, was initially accused of being under the influence of marijuana when the crash occurred. The authorities said that at that time he accelerated in a zone of 35 miles per hour.

The defense lawyers David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld argued that the crash, which took place as Eric Echevarria, turned left, was the fault of Echevarria and that Nevadas Marihuana Dui law was “arbitrary and unscientific”.

“You pulled his name through the dirt,” said Ann Marie Echevarria on Thursday of the jury.

In response to the wife's testimony, the law firm Chesnoff & Schonfeld published an explanation on Thursday evening: “Based on documents and videos created by the state of Nevada in the discovery in the criminal proceedings, we made legal arguments regarding the immediate cause of the collision.”

A Grand jury rejected it to complain about Collins for Dui.

The prosecutors had said that his system had 3.0 nanograms per milliliter THC, the site that marijuana gives its high area when the legal limit was 2.0 nanograms per milliliter. However, a forensic scientist from the Metropolitan Police Department informed the Grand jurors that there was not enough research to know when Collins consumed marijuana.

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