Vigil held for two cousins involved in fatal crash

Friends and family are mourning for two cousins one of them killed the other severly injured in a horrible accident, early Saturday morning.

Loved ones held each other close during a candlelight vigil, Sunday evening as they try to understand why a woman identified by relatives as Charlene Zambrano, 26 was taken so soon.

As those close to Zambrano try to cope with their loss, they continue to pray for her cousin Angela Riding, 21, as she struggles to survive the critical injuries she sustained in the crash.

According to Stockton police, the two women were passengers in a vehicle that was traveling at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control and struck a tree. It happened in the 4100 block of McDougald Boulevard. The vehicle went airborne, hit three cars parked in a driveway, then went through a garage door and hit a boat and truck.

"It looked like a battlefield. Total devastation," said the owner of the home, who did not want to publicly share his name.

"When I got downstairs and got outside my neighbor is telling me get the water hose, get the water hose and I'm asking my neighbor, "what do we need the water hose for?' And she says 'there's a car on fire'."

"I heard a loud, breaking, screeching sound," said neighbor Sandra Hickey.

When Hickey went outside she found a woman pinned between a car and her neighbor's garage. The second female victim was found lying on the other side of the driveway.

According to Hickey, a man climbed out of the car and left the scene. Police later identified the man as 25-year-old Zane Ashik Ali. He was taken to the hospital with a head injury.

Construction workers began repairing the house on Saturday. The owner estimates the crash caused about $100,000 in damage.