Wrong-way driver sentenced to 20 years for killing Fort Worth man on Loop 820 in 2018
A wrong-way driver who killed a Fort Worth man in January 2018 was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 years in prison.
Cesar Romero, 32, of Fort Worth, received the sentence in Tarrant County Criminal District Court No. 2 after he had pleaded guilty in September to intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle.
Romero was driving a 2014 BMW northbound in the southbound lanes of Loop 820 when his vehicle hit a 2004 Toyota, killing Moses Elizondo on the morning of Jan. 28, 2018, authorities said.
Romero was injured in the crash, and he was later charged with intoxication manslaughter.
Elizondo had just left work at Amazon in the early morning hours of Jan. 28, 2018, and was driving home to his parents.
The 21-year-old Western Hills High School graduate was working to save money to go back to college, his uncle told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in an interview last year.
Police responded to the major accident call shortly after 5:30 a.m. in the 1600 block of Loop 820 in west Fort Worth in the southbound lanes.
“He was such a gentle soul,” Moses’ uncle, Richard Elizondo said. “He self-taught himself to play the guitar and that really impressed me that we had a music talent in our family.”
This report contains information from Star-Telegram archives.
