EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The 25-year-old woman who was charged with intoxication manslaughter after a wrong-way crash that killed a man earlier this week on Interstate 10 confessed to having drunk an “unknown number of shots” before the crash, according to court documents obtained by KTSM.

Woman charged with manslaughter after wrong-way crash in West El Paso

As KTSM previously reported, shortly after 10:35 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 25-year-old Britney Torres was traveling the wrong way in a Ford Mustang on I-10 West at Mesa in West El Paso. At the same time, 25-year-old Jesus Chico Jr. was traveling west on I-10 in a Honda Civic. Torres struck Chico Jr. head-on, which resulted in his death.

According to court documents, moments before the crash, an El Paso Police Department (EPPD) officer observed the Ford Mustang traveling southbound within the northbound lanes of North Desert and entered I-10 West, while traveling eastbound. Both roadways run parallel to one another.

The same officer was then flagged down by a passerby who said there was a head-on crash in the area. The officer proceeded to the crash scene and observed that both vehicles had “massive front-end damage.”

The officer observed that Torres was the sole occupant of the Mustang, and an unconscious man, later identified as Chico Jr., was in the driver’s seat of the Honda Civic. Torres was taken to the hospital, and Chico Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene, according to court documents.

Officers on scene also found a “liquor shooter” on Torres’ vehicle, specifically on the passenger’s side floorboard in plain view.

According to court documents, officers were then dispatched to the Las Palmas Medical Center to meet with Torres, and Fire and Medical Services (FMS) personnel alerted them that Torres had admitted to them that she was drinking alcoholic beverages and that she had drunk an unknown number of shots. FMS also said that they could detect the odor of an unknown alcoholic beverage coming from her breath and person.

DWI Task Force officers met with Torres, and she said that before the crash, she believed she was on Loop 375 on her way home from visiting her sister rather than on I-10 West. Torres also admitted that she had stopped at Spec’s to purchase small shots and drank two to three of them on her own.

Court documents indicate that she failed a field sobriety test.

Torres has been booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility with a $150,000 bond.

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