The family of a motorcyclist killed by a suspected DUI driver spoke about their loss, sharing their devastation and warning against driving impaired.
The victim, 30-year-old Marcos Amaral, worked two jobs to help raise his 4-year-old son.
The family wants the suspected DUI driver to be held accountable.
“He still video chatted me every day or nearly every day, and that’s going to be real hard to get used to,” said his mother, Michelle Amaral.
“You just think you have so much time. I feel like I never thought this would happen,” said Emily Armstrong, the mother of Marcos’s son.
On Aug. 10, just a few minutes after midnight, the family said Amaral was riding his motorcycle.
He had just gotten off work as a bartender at the Benihana restaurant in Concord.
He was on Highway 24 near Orinda, east of St. Stephens Exit, heading towards San Francisco where he …