Drivers convicted in El Paso man's I-10 crash that burned his car to death

Raymond Barron’s family says the sentence is too lenient

Two drivers have been sentenced after pleading guilty to manslaughter charges in a high-speed crash that killed an El Paso man who was at work when his car was struck on Interstate 10 behind with two years.

Kayla Nuñez and her boyfriend, Saul Miguel Gutierrez, were sentenced Wednesday, August 14, after they both pleaded guilty to manslaughter and hit-and-run charges for leaving the scene of a crash that killed 57-year-old Raymond Barron .

Nuñez and Gutierrez each received a 10-year suspended prison sentence, 10 years of probation, a $3,000 fine and 200 hours of community service, according to El Paso County court records.

The pair were sentenced by Judge Sam Medrano of 409^th Court, where the case was scheduled to be heard on Friday, August 16.

The accident occurred at 5:49 a.m. on Sunday, April 10, 2022, while Nuñez, then 19, and Gutierrez, then 24, were in separate vehicles, believed to be that they were racing at over 110 mph on the highway.

Barron was driving to his job as a security guard eastbound on Interstate 10 when his 2004 Pontiac Vibe was struck from behind. The car crashed into a concrete barrier and caught fire near the Fountains in the Farah shopping center.

“This is not justice”

Barron’s family felt the sentence was too lenient and a “slap in the face,” his sister, Yvonne Delgado, told Channel 7-KVIA in an interview.

“For them to kill my brother and leave him on the street burning alive. He’s burning in his vehicle, don’t get him out … that’s not justice,” Delgado told KVIA.

“Every day is a constant reminder that he’s not here,” Delgado added. “They took it from us. They ripped it from us and they’re still going.”

Car burst into flames in fatal crash on I-10

El Paso police said Gutierrez was driving a Chevrolet Corvette and Nuñez was driving a Chevrolet Tahoe as they were allegedly racing on I-10.

The Corvette was going 121 mph while the Tahoe was going 112 mph before each crash, a deputy district attorney said at a 2022 bond hearing, citing airbag deployment data pulled from the vehicles by investigators.

Gutierrez lost control of the Corvette, crashed into the center median and came to rest on the freeway, police said.

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Nuñez was believed to be looking back as he passed the crashed Corvette when the Tahoe rear-ended the Pontiac, causing the car to crash into a concrete barrier and catch fire, prosecutors said.

The drivers of the Corvette and Tahoe fled the scene, leaving the damaged vehicles behind.

Nuñez, of Chaparral, New Mexico, and Gutierrez, of Horizon City, were arrested days later on charges of manslaughter and accident involving death for fleeing the scene of the deadly wreck.

Drivers convicted in El Paso man’s I-10 crash that burned his car to death

Raymond Barron’s family says the sentence is too lenient

“This is not justice”

Car burst into flames in fatal crash on I-10

By Matthew. Jr

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