Local News in Brief : Why Driver Ran Into Restaurant a Mystery
Monterey Park police said they still had not determined Thursday what caused a 70-year-old motorist to ram his car through a wall of the Four Happiness Restaurant, killing two people and injuring five others.
Preliminary tests on the driver, Rudy D’Agostin of Sherman Oaks, indicated that he was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol, police said. Police are trying to determine if he may have suffered a heart attack.
Killed on Wednesday when the vehicle thrust them against an industrial-size gas stove were Shyn Jen Jiang, a 17-year-old waitress at the restaurant, and a customer, Ming Der Donald Huang, 39, of Los Altos Hills.
Jiang had come from Taiwan only six weeks ago to work in the restaurant, which her family began operating about three months ago.
D’Agostin, the vehicle’s only occupant, was released Wednesday after being treated at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena.
Two members of a family eating in the restaurant were still in the hospital.
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