The California teen who admitted to live-streaming a brutal car crash that killed her 14-year-old sister said she realizes the video made her look like a ‘monster’.
Obdulia Sanchez, 18, was charged with driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter after her sister Jacqueline was killed on July 21.
Sanchez revealed that she had only seen the full video – in which she can be heard saying ‘I f*****g killed my sister’ – last Sunday.
‘I didn’t even know I looked like a monster – I look like a freaking horrible monster,’ Sanchez, who is being held on $300,000 bail, told KSEE.
Obdulia Sanchez (pictured in court), who admitted to live-streaming during a brutal car crash that killed her 14-year-old sister, said she realizes the video made her look like a ‘monster’
Sanchez, 18, (right) was charged with driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter after her sister Jacqueline (left) was killed on July 21.
‘That was not my intention at all. I just didn’t know the video was so horrible.’
Sanchez admitted that she often live-streamed on Instagram while driving, saying she would ‘do it all the time’.
‘Trust me, it’s like a reflex,’ she said. ‘Everybody does it. Everybody does. They take Snapchats. Why not? People take video of them in cars like all the time.’
‘And I’m only 18 – we’re still young.’
Sanchez said she had never crashed before that fateful day that cost Jacqueline’s life.
She was headed back home in Stockton after picking up Jacqueline’s girlfriend Manuela Seja from her home in Fresno 120 miles away.
Neither Jacqueline or Seja were wearing seat belts.
Sanchez revealed that she had only seen the full video – in which she can be heard saying ‘I f*****g killed my sister’ – last Sunday
Sanchez admitted that she often live-streamed on Instagram while driving, saying she would ‘do it all the time’ and that it was ‘like a reflex’
‘We were perfectly freaking fine. We were perfectly freaking fine,’ Sanchez recalled.
‘Then next thing I know, we started going left. We started going left, then I started to stop the car. Then we flipped over.’
The California Highway Patrol said Sanchez was under the influence when her car suddenly veered left and flipped when she tried to overcorrect and panicked.
Her car rolled into a barbed wire fence and into a field when she realized both Jacqueline and Seja had been thrown from the vehicle.
‘That’s when I just started freaking out,’ Sanchez said. ‘I look in the back seat – and there’s nobody in the back seat, and that’s when I started freaking out.’
Sanchez said she got out of the car when she saw Seja, who she said ‘just had a little cut on her leg’ and was walking.
‘And then I see my sister,’ she said. ‘And I tried to take her pulse, and then I saw her brain and I just lost it.’
The California Highway Patrol said Sanchez was under the influence when her car suddenly veered left and flipped when she tried to overcorrect
The car rolled over a barbed wire fence and onto a field in Los Banos, about 120 miles southeast of San Francisco
But Sanchez continued to live-stream, even showing her sister’s body strewn in the field, on Instagram.
She can be heard saying ‘Jacqueline, please wake up,’ as she says: ‘I f****** killed my sister. I killed my sister, I know I’m going to prison, but I don’t care.’
Sanchez told KSEE that the live-stream was not a continuous video.
‘I did CPR and called the police, then I did the live video, and then I called police again,’ she said.
Sanchez said her 12-year-old sister Evelyn, who had not seen the video, then called and asked where they were.
‘I didn’t know what to say,’ she recalled. ‘I just started bawling, crying. Like I didn’t know what to tell my dad.’
Authorities at the scene said Sanchez allegedly became combative as officers tried to lead her into an ambulance and away from her sister.
But Sanchez said she was just trying to say goodbye.
‘The police came and restrained me and I just wanted to say goodbye to my little sister, I went ballistic, I’m not going to lie, cause I knew she was dead,’ she said.
Sanchez filmed herself speaking directly to the camera before the crash, with a passenger visible in the background (left). She kept filming herself after the horrific crash (right)
Sanchez filmed herself singing and gesturing to the camera before the deadly crash
‘I took her pulse and there was no pulse. They put a body bag over her and I just started bawling and crying and yelling.’
Sanchez was shown the video – which was viewed more than 700,000 times – by her lawyers this week and said she only realized ‘later on’ how bad it made her look.
‘I just started crying,’ she said. ‘I said, “Oh my god I can’t believe I did that.'”
Merced County Chief Deputy District Attorney Harold Nutt said Sanchez’s behavior in the video was ‘disturbing and shocking.’
Prosecutors say the video will be a key piece of evidence in the case and that Sanchez could spend more than 13 years in state prison if convicted.
Sanchez, who had a 0.08 blood alcohol content level at the time of the crash, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Her defense attorney claims that she suffered a tire blowout on Highway 165, causing the crash.
Jacqueline Sanchez was not wearing a safety belt when she was killed in the crash
Jacqueline’s 14-year-old girlfriend Manuela Seja (left) was in the car and suffered a leg injury
The heartbroken teen said they had started off as friends but romance had blossomed around seven months ago (Manuela and Jacqueline are pictured together)
Jacqueline’s girlfriend Seja, who suffered a leg injury in the crash, says she has found forgiveness and wasn’t ‘mad’ at Sanchez.
‘Honestly, I’m not mad at anybody and I don’t blame anybody,’ Seja told KSEE.
‘It’s all affected by social media. That’s what life is now. And it’s going to advance more and more. That what it’s going to be about.’
Jacqueline’s Catholic Confirmation Ceremony was supposed to take place the day after the crash. She was also days away from her 15th birthday.
Sanchez said her younger sister was her ‘mini-me’ and ‘best friend’.
‘She looked just like me. Any time I look at her, it’s like I’m looking at myself. It makes me like – it makes me really sad that she’s gone,’ she said.
Sanchez has more than 7,400 followers on Facebook and Instagram. It is not clear if her Instagram profile photo (right) shows her injuries from the recent deadly crash
Sanchez has gotten death threats since footage from her live-stream was released, and begged people to stop making her parents ‘suffer more’.
‘You’re only going to make my parents suffer more. You’re not going to help anybody else,’ she said.
‘My parents are grieving. They want me back home. The house is super lonely without us. We were like the joy of the house.’
‘They lost two daughters in one day. The people who are mad at me are not helping us, my family doesn’t need to lose a second daughter.’
Sanchez said if she could go back in time to that day, she would have never even left the house.
‘Of course I’m remorseful,’ she said. ‘Just because I’m not crying a river right now on the phone doesn’t mean I’m not remorseful.’
Authorities said Sanchez was detained at the scene after allegedly becoming combative with officers after the crash (pictured)