Shortly before two in the morning, Wednesday, August 4, 2021, Luis Cevallos, 24, and Alexis Rodriguez, 27, were stopped by police officer Jon Nunez in New Jersey. The driver Cevallos is said to have driven up to 160 kilometers per hour on Kennedy Boulevard.
The man is said to have also come close to hitting a cyclist and hitting Nunez’s car, something that can also be heard in the video from the police body camera that was released at the end of September this year.
Rodriguez tells the police that they are on their first date, to which Nunez replies, “Almost killing each other is not a good start to your first date.”
Nunez gives the man three fines for careless traffic, for driving against a traffic light and for driving after the designated hours for driving with a New Jersey provisional license.
After Cevallos receives his fine, the police release him and urge the couple to drive home carefully.
Devastating consequences
But only about 15 minutes later, Nunez receives an alert about an accident between a car and a larger trailer. Once there, he finds the crashed car.
The same car that he stopped just 15 minutes earlier.
In the police body camera, Nunez can be seen and heard explaining to other police officers and emergency personnel that it is the same car that he stopped just minutes earlier. He is in shock and cannot understand what has happened. After talking with his police colleagues, Nunez was helped by paramedics on the scene.
Both driver Luis Cevallos and passenger Alexis Rodriguez died in the accident.