Brenda Gomez declared dead after international student runs stop sign in Tacoma, WA on November 10

KENT, Wash. — A King County prosecutor's spokesman says a new court date has been set for the Chinese student charged with vehicular manslaughter.

A 25-year-old woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury after her car was broadsided in a crash in Des Moines on Nov. 10 was declared legally dead on Monday, according to a spokeswoman for Harborview Medical Center. Brenda Gomez-Zapata was pronounced brain dead at noon Monday, said hospital spokeswoman Leila Gray.

KENT, Wash. — The family of a 25-year-old woman who was killed in a collision in Des Moines is in the midst of negotiating a settlement with the family of the man accused of causing the crash.

A 19-year-old community-college student was charged Thursday with four counts of vehicular assault for allegedly driving his newly purchased Mercedes-Benz at freeway speeds on a residential street in Des Moines on Saturday, running a stop sign and slamming into another car, seriously injuring four people, according to King County prosecutors. Yichun Xu, a Chinese national who has been in the country for two months while attending South Puget Sound Community College, is being held in the King County Jail in lieu of $2 million bail, according to court and jail records. He also has been charged with two counts of reckless endangerment, charging papers say.

A King County prosecutor’s spokesman says a new court date has been set for a Chinese student charged with vehicular manslaughter.

New details have emerged about an international student from China who was arrested after he crashed his Mercedes into a car full of teens and critically injured that car’s driver. Yichun Xu, 19, came from China to study at South Puget Community College

An international college student charged in a fatal car crash is out of the King County Jail after he posted $2 million bail Friday. Prosecutors said in November, 19-year-old Yichun Xu, a community college student from China, drove through a stop sign in Des Moines.

SEATTLE – The family of a Chinese international student who faces a vehicular homicide charge has posted the $2 million bail to free him from custody, presenting a cashier’s check in what authorities said was a rare occurrence. Yichun Xu, 19, is accused of driving his newly purchased Mercedes-Benz at freeway speeds through residential Des Moines, running through a stop sign and crashing into another car, the Seattle Times reported.

SEATTLE -- The family of a Chinese international student who faces a vehicular-homicide charge has posted the $2 million bail to free him from custody.

SEATTLE — The family of a Chinese international student who faces a vehicular-homicide charge has posted the $2 million bail to free him from custody, presenting a cashier's check in what authorities said was a rare occurrence.

A Chinese national who faces a vehicular-homicide charge for a Nov. 10 accident that left one woman dead and three injured in Des Moines has been freed on bail after his family posted a $2 million cashier’s check. Yichun Xu, 19, allegedly drove his newly purchased Mercedes-Benz at freeway speeds through residential areas of Des Moines and ran through a stop sign, crashing into another car.

SEATTLE — A judge has denied a lower bail for a Chinese student accused of causing a crash that killed a 25-year-old woman in Des Moines in November.

A Chinese community-college student, who drove his newly purchased Mercedes-Benz at freeway speeds on a residential street in Des Moines and crashed into another car, killing the driver and injuring three people, pleaded guilty today.

Yichun Xu, a 19-year-old community college student from China, entered not guilty pleas this morning to six charges, including vehicular homicide, for a Nov. 10 crash in Des Moines that led to the death of a 25-year-old woman days later at Harborview Medical Center. Xu did not speak during his arraignment before King County Superior Court Judge Mary Roberts at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. Roberts denied a request from Xu’s defense attorney, Scott Leist, who didn’t want his client photographed by the news media.

The Chinese student who was charged with vehicular manslaughter will be back in court Wednesday afternoon.