Driver charged in Fort Worth high-speed crash that killed 5 people

FORT WORTH – A 19-year-old man is in jail after police say he killed five people, including two children, while driving drunk early Monday morning.

Fort Worth police say Eduardo Gonzalez was behind the wheel of a black Chevy Camaro in the northbound lanes of 35W just after midnight when he rear-ended another sedan on the exit ramp to Seminary Drive. The sedan caught fire, and all five people inside were killed.

MedStar confirmed that two of the people killed were children and three were adults. There is no word yet on the victims' ages. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner will identify the victims.

Gonzalez was hospitalized with serious injuries. He was later released and then taken to jail, and faces five counts of intoxication manslaughter.

The northbound lanes of 35W from 820 to Seminary were closed for hours but later reopened.