Rafaela Vasquez is a convicted felon residing in Arizona. ^[1] Vasquez identifies as a female. ^[1]

Vasquez had served almost four years in an Arizona prison in the early 2000s on an attempted armed robbery conviction. ^[1]

The attempted armed robbery was in July 2000, when Vasquez and an accomplice conspired to rob one of her co-workers and her employer, Blockbuster Video, of a work deposit of $2,782.98.

Vasquez was identified as the operator behind an autonomous vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona. ^[1] Herzberg was walking a bike across a street outside a crosswalk at about 10:00 p.m. when she was fatally hit.