‘She killed her own sister’: Parents speak after drunk teen live streams fatal crash

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The parents of a teen who was arrested and charged with killing her own sister in a DUI accident are still reeling from what happened.

18-year-old Obdulia Sanchez, known as Lula to her friends and family, live-streamed the accident in a now-viral video that showed both the events immediately before and after the accident occurred. Nicandro and Gloria Sanchez, the parents of not only Lula but Jacquelin, who was killed in the crash, have seen the video and are still trying to figure out how to react. They do believe that Lula needs help.

“I think she doesn’t know what happened,” Nicandro said. “What I think is she knows she’s done something wrong. Because she knows, and that’s what I feel. She feels bad for herself, but she killed her own sister.”

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Authorities already have a good deal of evidence from the video shot by Lula. They know, for example, that Lula was the only one wearing her seatbelt and that Jacquelin and 14-year-old Manuela Seja were ejected through the back window.

However, they do not know what, if anything, Lula did to try and save her sister in the aftermath of the crash. It is still not clear if she even called 911.

“The video is very disturbing, both to us as people who do this for a living,” a CHP officer said. “It’s very disturbing to us because of the callous nature of her actions, both leading up to this tragedy and in the immediate aftermath.”

Jacquelin would have celebrated her confirmation at church on Saturday, but instead, her family is now planning a funeral, while their other daughter is in jail.

 

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