A Spring man accused of intoxication manslaughter in the deaths of three teens last week has fled the country, authorities said Tuesday.

Sajan Timalshina, 25, is believed to have fled to Qatar last Friday, the same day his car collided with a sport utility vehicle in northeast Houston in the early morning hours, killing three girls, according to Houston Police Department spokesman Victor Senties.

“It is believed that he’s trying to get back to his home country of Nepal,” Senties said.

The spokesman said HPD investigators will be contacting the U.S. Marshals Service to make arrangements for his arrest there and extradition to the United States.

Donna Hawkins, a spokeswoman for the Harris County District Attorney’s office, said Timalshina had been detained after the accident, but was not arrested. She said he had not been charged because further investigation was needed and the DA’s office had not been made aware that Timalshina was a potential flight risk.

Timalshina was charged with three counts of intoxication manslaughter on Monday.

He could face 60 years in prison if convicted of all three second-degree felonies.

According to investigators, Timalshina was northbound in a Toyota Camry about 1:30 a.m. July 9 in the 6100 block of the North Sam Houston Parkway service road east when he ran a red light at the Eastex Freeway. Police said Timalshina’s car collided with a Ford Expedition moving through the intersection on a green light.

RaShaunda Raleigh, 17, and Avianca Cortez, 13, were thrown from the Expedition and died at the scene. A third girl, Detrihanna Davis, 13, was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital, where she later died.

The girls, along with two other friends and one girl’s mother, were being driven home by Raleigh’s father from a “teen night” at a club on FM 1960.

According to court records, Timalshina failed field sobriety tests at the scene. Police took a blood sample from him at Ben Taub Hospital about three and a half hours after the fatal crash. Though his blood-alcohol concentration was determined to be .075 at the time of the test, analysts said it would have been .16 at the time of the crash. The legal limit of intoxication while operating a motor vehicle is set at .08.

Investigators said Timal shina told police he had worked 16 hours that day and became confused about which traffic signal was his. He later told investigators he had drunk about only a quarter of a 12-ounce beer earlier in the evening.