Gabrieleno High School alumni and the San Gabriel community remembers two former students who were killed in a DUI crash with a small memorial at Gabrielino High School on Wednesday. (SGVN/Staff photo by Keith Birmingham)

SAN GABRIEL - Grieving friends and classmates Wednesday commemorated the lives of two former Gabrielino High School students who were killed Tuesday in a suspected DUI crash.

Manolo "Simon" Magat, 23, and Joseph Almario, 21, were killed when the car they were in fell at least 60 feet off the transition road from the westbound I-10 to the southbound 710 Freeway at 1:05 a.m., California Highway Patrol officials said.

The driver, Christine Meng, 22, faces charges of felony driving under the influence and manslaughter after she is released from the hospital, CHP Sgt. Connie Guzman said Wednesday. Meng broke an arm and three vertebrae in the accident.

Passenger Jason Lieu, 22, also suffered injuries and was transported to Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center.

The four students graduated from GHS in 2007 and 2008.

Many students attended a memorial service at the high school Tuesday night, according to a Facebook event. They gathered in the quad and front of the school, signing a commemorative poster, school staff said.

Matt Izumida, 21, said he grew up playing Little League baseball with Almario. He said the thing he remembers most about the former GHS baseball player and homecoming king is his laugh.

"We both kind of had the same cackling laugh when we laughed really hard," said Izumida, a Pasadena City College student. "We would always laugh to the point where we couldn't breathe."

Almario was involved in the

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