During the operation, minors working under direct supervision of law enforcement attempted to purchase alcohol from 12 licensed retail businesses in Modesto.

The crash was reported around 2:30 a.m. Feb. 1 on Bystrum Road, just south of Pecos Avenue, the CHP said in a news release.

Editor's note: The Modesto Bee uses the legal definition of homicide to mean the slaying or killing of one person by another. By that definition, it includes officer-involved deaths, of which there ...