Suspect allegedly involved in 2 separate Long Beach fatal crashes is arrested

Long Beach police said they have arrested a 24-year-old woman who was allegedly involved in two vehicle-involved crashes that were five months apart and resulted in the deaths of three people.

Ahkeyajahnique Owens, a 24-year-old Long Beach resident, turned herself in on Jan. 7 at the Long Beach Police Department.

Police say they identified Owens as a suspect in both collisions using forensic evidence and video footage.

The first collision left a 35-year-old bicyclist dead. On October 6, 2025, Raul Augustin Gallopa of Long Beach was killed at the intersection of East 4th Street and Bonito Avenue.

The second collision with another vehicle left two people dead and three others injured. Gilberto Lopez, a 21-year-old resident of Midway City, and Bobbi Smith, a 24-year-old resident of Buena Park, were killed after the hit-and-run collision at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and East 6th Street.

"She's just a role model to everybody, including my boys," Smith's mother Monique Jackson said. "Wherever she went, they went."

Police said Owens was booked for felony vehicular manslaughter related to the October 2025 traffic collision, while a separate case related to the January 4, 2026, collision will be presented to the District Attorney's Office next week.

"I don't want her to get out on bail," Jackson said. "I want to be there at the courthouse when they put her in jail for the rest of her life, because not only did she kill one person, but she killed three people. That's manslaughter. That's murder."

Clarification: The Long Beach Police Department sent an updated news release to report that only the second fatal collision was a hit and run.