As Gustavo Vargas drove off from a Harvey strip club after a night of drinking, he kept taunting his three buddies by screaming “You guys ready to die, you guys ready to die?”

His friends thought he was just “fooling around” but grew worried as Vargas kept yelling and “driving crazy” as they sped down the highway. Eduardo Rodriguez, sitting in the backseat, said he and his friends Jorge Pina and Armando Ruiz warned Vargas for what seemed like an hour not to do anything foolish.

But as they neared Hazel Crest on Interstate 80, Vargas made a sharp U-turn and headed back the wrong way, colliding with another car and killing himself and three other people early Monday morning, according to Rodriguez, the lone survivor.

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