Services will be held today and tomorrow for David Ponce Garcia, also known as Antonio or Tony, who died in a car crash Feb. 17 in an unincorporated part of Alameda County near Pleasanton.
Garcia, 20, attended Berkeley High School. He was killed when he pulled an illegal U-turn on Stanley Boulevard around 1:30 p.m., according to a CHP officer in the Dublin division. Another car traveling eastbound on Stanley Boulevard could not stop in time, broadsided Garcia’s car, and pushed it into a guardrail. The car caught on fire, killing Garcia.
There will be multiple services for Garcia, according to a sign posted at his mother’s store near Cole Coffee on College Avenue. There will be a Velación, or wake, from 4-8 p.m. Feb. 22 at Sunset View Cemetery at 101 Colusa Ave., El Cerrito.
On Feb. 23, there will be a mass at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison Ave. in Berkeley. That will be followed by a burial at Sunset View Cemetery. There will be a gathering to remember Garcia at the El Cerrito Community Center, 7007 Moser Lane, after the burial.
CHP officers found medical marijuana in the car and are investigating whether Garcia was delivering cannabis for a delivery service.
Toxicology reports are pending, according to the Alameda County coroner’s office.
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