At Vazquez-Gongora's arraignment last summer, Deputy District Attorney Makenzie Harvey said he decided to steal a car after he and a teenage girl "found themselves stranded in Coronado."
Ricardo Vazquez-Gongora is accused of stealing 32-year-old Eddie Foster's car on June 11, then crashing it as Foster clung to the car's hood in an attempt to get the driver to stop.
An 18-year-old man accused of stealing a San Diego-based sailor's car in Coronado and crashing it as the victim clung to the car's hood, causing injuries he is not expected to survive, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to carjacking, hit-and-run and DUI charges.