Driver Fleeing Police Causes Crash That Kills Couple

Jennifer Alejandra Loera Zarco was 25 years old and pregnant when a car traveling at more than 100 miles per hour ran a stop sign and broadsided the vehicle she and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Marc Anthony Trejo Saldivar, were riding in. The crash happened at the intersection of Garey Avenue and County Road in Pomona, California, on the night of April 1, 2026. Neither Jennifer nor Marc survived. Their unborn child did not survive either.

The driver who caused the crash had not been in an accident. He had been fleeing - running from a domestic violence call, from two police cruisers, from accountability - at speeds that turned a residential neighborhood into a death trap for people who had nothing to do with any of it.

What Led to the Crash

According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, the sequence began when Pomona Police officers responded to a domestic violence call. The suspect allegedly returned to the residence while officers were still on scene and began driving aggressively past the two patrol cars - at one point reversing directly into one of them and narrowly missing an officer and the resident who had made the call.

He then fled into the surrounding neighborhood. The DA’s office detailed what followed: running stop signs, making unsafe turns, briefly crossing into oncoming lanes, and reaching speeds exceeding 100 mph in a posted 35 mph zone. When he reached the intersection at Garey Avenue and County Road, he broadsided the car carrying Jennifer and Marc at full speed.

Three Murder Charges

The suspect now faces three counts of murder - one for Jennifer Loera Zarco, one for Marc Trejo Saldivar, and one for their unborn child. The triple murder charge reflects California law and the full human cost of what happened at that intersection.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced the charges and detailed the sequence of events leading up to the crash. The case is unusual in its structure - not a targeted killing, not a domestic homicide in the conventional sense, but a chain of choices that placed a pregnant woman and her partner directly in the path of a man who decided that escape mattered more than anything else on the road.

Jennifer and Marc

Jennifer Alejandra Loera Zarco was expecting. She was 25. Marc Anthony Trejo Saldivar was 26. They were in a car together at night in Pomona - two people in an ordinary moment that ended because of what someone else chose to do several blocks away.

The DA’s office did not release extensive biographical detail about the victims in its initial announcement. What the record shows is a young couple killed at an intersection they had no reason to avoid, by a driver they had never encountered, in a crash they had no chance to escape.

A Case That Reflects a Broader Reality

Domestic violence calls are among the most dangerous situations police respond to. They are also, as this case illustrates, dangerous for people far removed from the original incident. When a suspect flees - through residential streets, through stop signs, across lanes of traffic - the violence that began inside a home does not stay there.

The charges filed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office treat the deaths of Jennifer, Marc, and their unborn child as murder. The case now moves through the courts, where the question of accountability for three lives lost on an April night in Pomona will eventually be answered.

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