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A young Brooklyn teacher was killed Sunday when her drunken boyfriend - driving at three times the legal alcohol limit :shocked: - crashed their car on their way home from a Halloween party, police sources said.
Lucia Negrete, 25, a math teacher at Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn, died instantly when she was thrown from the wreck on the Staten Island Expressway at 2:30 a.m., police said.
Her boyfriend, Jose Sandoval, had a blood-alcohol content of 0.239 - far above the legal limit of 0.08 - when he lost control of his speeding 2002 Honda and slammed into a guardrail, the sources said.
"It feels like a nightmare," said Maria Negrete, the victim's 13-year-old sister. "It feels like a scary movie." :halloween:
Negrete, who was dressed as a firefighter for Halloween, and Sandoval, 24, who was costumed as a vampire, were heading home from a party at a relative's home, the family said.
The boozed-up Sandoval weighs 170 pounds, meaning he had drunk the equivalent of 13 beers in the four hours before the crash. :cheers:
Investigators believe Sandoval was going more than 80 mph when he hit a puddle and skidded into the right guardrail, police said.
The car then spun across the highway and collided with the center median, tossing Negrete through a window.
"Our mother doesn't believe it," said a shaken Maria Negrete.
Lucia Negrete, a Hunter College graduate, was remembered as a devout Catholic and a dedicated teacher who happily gave her free time to her students and members of her church youth group, relatives and friends said.
Her friends also said she tried to keep Sandoval on a straight and narrow path.
"It's because of her that he changed," said Ivan Zarco, 26, a longtime friend.
"She really helped him a lot," said Negrete's cousin Osiris Martinez, 26. "She was great."
Sandoval was charged with drunken driving and criminally negligent homicide.
"It's like two tragedies at the same time," said Zarco. "He probably made the wrong decision that he's going to have to pay for."
Sandoval and Negrete were parishioners together at nearby St.Rocco's Church. Martinez said the inseparable couple had known each other since childhood.
"I grew up with both of them. We grew up in the same sandbox," said Martinez.
The accident shattered Negrete's tight-knit family, which gathered at their Park Slope home to try to make sense of the sudden end of a promising life.
Martinez blinked back tears as he thought of his dead cousin.
"It's crazy - Lucia didn't deserve that," Martinez said. "She was too good."
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