Giovanny Aparicio-Medina, a teenager accused of hitting and killing three pedestrians and injuring two with his car before running away, was arrested in March in Los Angeles, more than a year after the 2024 Everett crash.
He was brought to Washington this week and pleaded not guilty to 10 charges, including three counts of second-degree murder, related to the fatal crash.
Prosecutors say Aparicio-Medina, now 18, caused a “catastrophic collision” when he sped from a an attempted traffic stop by a sheriff’s officer and lost control of an Infiniti G37 sedan, which slid onto a sidewalk and hit five people near an Everett 7-Eleven.
According to Snohomish County Superior Court documents, a sheriff’s deputy saw an Infiniti without a license plate make an abrupt lane change while speeding in two lanes around 12:40 a.m. Nov. 9. The deputy tried to pull over the car near Airport Road and East Gibson Road, but the driver accelerated to 100 mph, then drove through a red light. The car then veered off the road and hit a group of people congregated on the 7-Eleven property who didn’t appear to see the incoming vehicle. When the car stopped, the driver and passengers ran away.
Nicholas Faix, 34, Heather Sullivan, 25, and Jonathan Anderson, 40, were pronounced dead at the scene. Two others were injured and hospitalized with multiple fractures.
Investigators identified Aparicio-Medina as the suspected driver through DNA matched from an Ocean Spray juice bottle, surveillance footage and interviews with the car’s three passengers. One was arrested and charged with weapons violations after police found a handgun with an illegal extended capacity magazine that had been thrown as they ran from the scene.
The investigation found Aparicio-Medina had fled to California. An arrest warrant was issued in December.
The U.S. Marshals Service’s Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Aparicio-Medina on March 9, according to the Everett Police Department. He was transported to Snohomish County Jail, where he remains in custody in lieu of $1 million bail.
Aparicio-Medina never got a learner’s permit, let alone a driver’s license or any form of ID, but he bought the Infiniti from a Facebook marketplace ad, took the car on joy rides with friends and, allegedly, sped through red lights.
Within a week of Aparicio-Medina buying the car, three people were dead.
