A San Diego sailor severely injured trying to stop two teenagers from stealing his car in Coronado Sunday morning will be taken off life support once doctors can safely remove his organs so they can be donated.
At 5:20 a.m., Coronado police received a call that a tan sedan was driving on Orange Avenue with a person on the car's hood. It was Foster clinging to the hood of his Honda Accord after suspect Ricardo Vazquez Gongora and a juvenile teenage girl allegedly tried to steal it.
Moments later, Gongora crashed Foster's car into the old toll plaza before the Coronado Bridge, according to police. Foster was found in the roadway, one lane over, with serious injuries.A man was thrown from the hood of his car after trying to stop a teenager from stealing his vehicle Sunday morning in Coronado. Photo courtesy of Charles Crehore.
Foster, from the Bakersfield area, married his high school sweetheart who together have four kids aged 5 to 13. His half-brother, Lyle Durkin, is struggling to imagine a life without him. "I don’t want to think about why or how or who. I want to think about him smiling, his time with his kids, watching them grow," Durkin said."The man he turned into as an adult is a man to be respected and honored to the highest regard," he said.
Gongora and the teenage girl were not injured in the crash. Gongora is facing several charges including driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol as well as attempted murder. He's scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.
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