US EditionOakland Students Graduate without Beloved Teacher Marvin Boomer
- Dr. Marvin Boomer, a Castlemont High School teacher and mentor, died on a Wednesday night in Oakland after a vehicle fleeing a California Highway Patrol chase struck him on a sidewalk near East 21st Street and 12th Avenue.
- The crash occurred when 18-year-old Eric Hernandez Garcia lost control of a stolen Infiniti G35 while evading officers, hitting a fire hydrant and then Boomer and a woman walking with him.
- Boomer had served eight years as a math teacher, pathway coach, and college career mentor at Castlemont, and the woman injured in the crash was hospitalized with expected recovery.
- Authorities charged Hernandez Garcia with vehicular manslaughter and evading police, and a vigil was held Friday at the crash site while community grief and debate over police chase policies intensified.
- Boomer's death cast a pall over Castlemont's graduation and renewed calls for cautious pursuit policies to prevent further harm to innocent bystanders in Oakland's dense neighborhoods.
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Teacher dies after driver loses control following police chase
A doorbell camera captured the terrifying moment a car fatally struck a high school teacher and injured another pedestrian after it lost control following a highway patrol chase in Oakland, California.
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OAKLAND — Castlemont High School students and staff spent their graduation ceremony on Friday grieving the death of beloved teacher Marvin Boomer, who died when a car that had been chased by California Highway Patrol officers barreled through an intersection where he and his romantic partner had been on an evening stroll. The death of Boomer, a 40-year-old Oakland resident who held a doctorate degree, has reignited a debate over whether law enfo…
Students remember Oakland teacher fatally struck by CHP chase suspect as inspirational, kind
"I know he is watching and I know he is proud." As the Castlemont High School class of 2025 graduates prepared for their ceremony at Paramount Theater in Oakland on Friday, one big presence was missing: their teacher, Dr. Marvin Boomer.
Oakland students graduate without beloved teacher Marvin Boomer
OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- On Friday, Castlemont High School held a graduation ceremony in Oakland without one of its most inspiring teachers. Marvin Boomer, a math teacher who led the school's college preparatory program, was killed while walking with his girlfriend on East 21st Street in Oakland just two days before his senior students received their diplomas. Boomer and his girlfriend were struck by a car that fled from California Highway Patr…
Oakland mourns ‘beloved' educator who was struck, killed by fleeing driver
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