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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Nathan Solis and Jonah Valdez

Child killed in LA County car crash was a couple weeks shy of first birthday

LOS ANGELES — Alonzo Quintero was 11 months and 17 days old when he died after a driver crashed into several cars in a fiery wreck Thursday that killed five people in the Windsor Hills neighborhood of L.A. County.

Alonzo’s 23-year-old mother, Asherey Ryan, also died in the crash, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Ryan was 8 1/2 months pregnant and on her way to a prenatal checkup when the crash happened, according to her family. The son she was carrying at the time was named Armani Lester, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. His date of birth and date of death fell on the same day.

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