Murder charge brought in Rotterdam DWI crash | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS ROTTERDAM — In an unusual move, a Schenectady County grand jury has brought a murder charge against a driver in a fatal vehicle crash in November. Oscar F. Lopez, 31, of Rotterdam, has been indicted for second-degree murder in a case where he is accused of being high on a combination of drugs and alcohol when his pickup truck — speeding on the wrong side of the road — slammed into another vehicle and killed a local woman The grand jury on Wednesday handed up a seven-count indictment charging Lopez with murder, plus three counts of aggravated vehicular assault, and single counts of aggravated driving while intoxicated, driving while impaired by the combined influence of alcohol and drugs, first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle. All are felonies. He is also charged with misdemeanor second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation.