SAN DIEGO—A man who drove drunk and caused a high-speed crash that killed another driver on Interstate 8 in La Mesa was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in state prison.
Iqbal Noory Ibrahim, 32, pleaded guilty to charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and assault with a deadly weapon for causing the Oct. 27, 2022, crash that killed 53-year-old El Cajon resident Jeffrey Garde.
Garde was driving a pickup truck that was rear-ended at around 2:30 a.m. that day on eastbound Interstate 8, near Grossmont Boulevard. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Ibrahim had a blood-alcohol level of .204 percent about an hour after the crash, according to Deputy District Attorney Hailey Williams, who said Ibrahim was driving over 100 mph when the impact occurred….