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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Charges person been filed against a antheral allegedly driving nether the power successful a clang that killed 4 people, the Fresno County District Attorney's Office said.
The DA says it is alleged that Sean Allen Larry Guynes, 32, of Kerman, was driving his Ford E350 southbound connected North Floyd Avenue astatine the intersection of West Shaw Avenue successful the evening hours of Jan. 10, erstwhile helium failed to output to oncoming postulation and pulled his van into the way of a Nissan Altima driving westbound.
According to officials, the clang caused some vehicles to ignite, ending with the lives of 2 radical from the Altima and 2 from the Ford.
Although the California Highway Patrol antecedently reported 1 of the drivers killed was the operator of the Ford, the DA said Tuesday an probe by CHP revealed that Gyunes had provided mendacious accusation astir being a rider successful his van and that helium was driving the conveyance astatine the clip of the crash.
The DA's bureau says it was besides wide from his interaction that evening with assorted instrumentality enforcement agencies that helium was "noticeably intoxicated."
The DA adds Guynes was antecedently convicted of driving nether the power successful 2018 successful Fresno County, and helium was advised by the tribunal that driving nether the power was unsafe to quality beingness and that if helium continued to thrust impaired and arsenic a effect a idiosyncratic was killed, helium could beryllium charged with murder.
Per the DA, the Felony Complaint filed successful the Superior Court charges Sean Allen Larry Guynes with six counts:
- Four counts of murder.
- One number of failing to execute a work pursuing a fatal collision.
- One number of driving with a suspended licence from a anterior DUI condemnation and causing injury.
If convicted, Guynes faces a maximum condemnation of 4 years positive 60 years to beingness successful authorities prison. The DA says helium remains successful custody and is scheduled for statement connected Wednesday.
