Two BMWs tearing down empty late-night lanes turned a routine drive into a deadly trap for a father-to-be who never saw it coming. Around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, investigators say 20-year-olds Kyle Jin Liu and Evan Moreno lined up their white BMWs on I-10 East, treating the stretch near the 8700 block like their own private racetrack. With engines howling, they blasted past North Foster Road toward FM 1516, weaving through open lanes at speeds no ordinary driver could anticipate or react to.
Up ahead was 33-year-old Robert Espinoza, heading home in his Nissan, a man with a baby on the way and zero connection to the reckless contest forming behind him. In a split second, Liu’s BMW M4 clipped the rear of Espinoza’s car. That single impact became the hinge on which the rest of the night turned. The Nissan spun violently, then flipped, rolling until it came apart and came to rest twisted across the roadway. Espinoza never had a chance.
Liu’s M4 didn’t stop either. It kept sliding, smashing into a concrete barrier with a force that crushed its front end and left debris scattered across multiple lanes. Moreno, meanwhile, didn’t slow or pull over. He simply vanished into the darkness in his 3 Series, leaving the chaos behind as if none of it had happened.
San Antonio police shut down the interstate for hours as they reconstructed the deadly sequence. Espinoza was pronounced dead at the scene. Liu was taken into custody, injured but alive. As for Moreno, detectives are now searching for him, calling him a crucial part of a crime that wiped out an innocent man’s future and permanently reshaped a family’s life.Street racing didn’t just cost two young men their freedom. It cost a father his life.
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