A 19-year-old man has been charged with felony drunken driving for striking another car in St. Paul last week and killing the other driver, according to charges.
Jose O. Vasquez-Guillen, of St. Paul, was charged Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court with criminal vehicular homicide in connection with the crash on April 3 south of the St. Paul Downtown Airport near Concord and Page streets. Mark J. O'Gara, 52, of St. Paul, died at the scene.
Two days after the crash, Vasquez-Guillen left the Ramsey County jail and was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Vasquez-Guillen, a citizen of El Salvador, entered the country illegally at age 15 in January 2016, and a federal judge seven months later ordered him deported, ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer said Thursday. The deportation order came after Vasquez-Guillen failed to appear for his immigration hearing.
Kenny O'Gara, one of Mark's sons, learned last week from police that Vasquez-Guillen was in the country illegally.
The charges say that Vasquez-Guillen's blood alcohol content about two hours after the crash was 0.149, well above the legal limit for anyone 21 and older to drive in Minnesota.
O'Gara, born on Christmas Day 1966 and a St. Paul Central High School graduate, leaves behind a wife, 10 children and six grandchildren.
Vasquez-Guillen was speeding in a Honda southeast on Concord that hit O'Gara's Saturn as it was leaving a driveway to head northwest onto Concord, police said.
