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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Parlier pistillate was sentenced to 15 years to beingness successful situation connected Wednesday for a DUI clang that killed her passenger— according to the Fresno County DA, this was her 3rd DUI successful 2 years.
Just aft midnight connected March 30, 2021, the DA says 30-year-old Lizbeth Resendez Romero was driving done Selma erstwhile she crashed into the backmost of a parked SUV adjacent Floral and McCall avenues.
Court records uncover her rear passenger, 28-year-old Luis Rodriguez of Reedley suffered fatal injuries portion her 2nd rider survived but required aesculapian attraction astatine a section hospital.
The DA says Romero fled the scene, stopping respective blocks distant earlier exiting to fell down a radical of residential garbage cans. Rodriguez was near unsocial successful the car wherever helium would aboriginal beryllium pronounced deceased.
According to the DA, tests revealed that Romero was driving nether the power of cocaine, marijuana, and intoxicant astir treble the ineligible bounds to run a conveyance successful California.
The DA says Romero had a anterior DUI condemnation from 2019 wherever she pled guilty; she was placed
on tribunal probation conscionable implicit 2 months earlier the crash. Romero was besides facing charges successful Madera County for DUI connected March 11, 2021, conscionable 19 days earlier the fatal crash.
The territory lawyer states connected Wednesday Romero was convicted of second-degree murder, gross vehicular manslaughter portion impaired, and deed and run.
