Victim in suspected DUI crash was Las Vegas veteran, federal employee

A antheral killed by a suspected drunk driver successful downtown Las Vegas a week agone was a subject seasoned and longtime national worker successful Las Vegas, a person said this week.

Julio Maymi-Diaz, 50, of Las Vegas, died erstwhile a conveyance helium was a rider successful was struck astatine Las Vegas Boulevard South astatine Gass Avenue successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Dec. 10. A motorist who constabulary accidental caused the crash, Daysia Brown, 24, of Henderson, has been charged with driving nether the power causing death.

“Julio was smart, loving, polite. Just an astonishing person,” said his friend, Ruth Ibarra of Las Vegas.

Maymi-Diaz was from Puerto Rico. He served successful the U.S. Air Force, past worked for the national civilian work for decades. He worked for the Internal Revenue Service successful Las Vegas and astir precocious worked arsenic an researcher with the Department of Labor, besides successful Las Vegas.

“He was a arrogant Air Force seasoned and helium often assisted and participated successful veterans events,” Ibarra said.

All of Maymi-Diaz’s loved ones unrecorded successful Puerto Rico, and they were conscionable notified of his death. Ibarra has created a GoFundMe page aimed astatine helping to wage for the returning of Maymi-Diaz’s assemblage to his homeland for ceremonial services and burial connected behalf of his family.

Ibarra said Maymi-Diaz was conscionable starting to enactment connected a publication bid named aft his niece, Krystal, who was killed by a drunk operator erstwhile she was 18. The publication bid was going to beryllium astir Krystal’s adventures alongside Maymi-Diaz’s cherished, real-life dog, Karma, who had to beryllium rescued from Maymi-Diaz’s downtown Las Vegas flat days aft his death. The archetypal bid of books was going to beryllium called “Krystal’s and Karmas Quest, Krystal and the Monster successful the Snowy Mountains.”

Police said Brown was driving a Jeep eastbound connected Gass erstwhile her conveyance collided with a Toyota sedan astatine 1:52 a.m. Maymi-Diaz was a rider successful the Toyota and died astatine University Medical Center. The Clark County coroner’s bureau said helium died from blunt unit trauma.

Police said Brown told an serviceman aft the clang “she was drunk and that she deserved what was coming to her,” constabulary said successful her apprehension report. However, the results of tests connected humor drawn from Brown person not been released.

“He loved it here,” Ibarra said of Maymi-Diaz. “His flat was virtually six blocks from wherever the mishap happened. Three minutes.”

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