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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 24-year-old is dormant pursuing a suspected DUI clang successful Fresno County implicit the weekend.
The California Highway Patrol says connected Saturday, conscionable earlier 10 p.m., 24-year-old Juan Carlos Mendoza Jr. was driving a Chevrolet Tahoe westbound connected Mt. Whitney Avenue, conscionable westbound of Cedar Avenue, with 3 passengers.
CHP says the SUV veered disconnected the roadworthy into a walnut orchard, striking respective trees earlier overturning and yet coming to rest.
Mendoza Jr. and his beforehand rider were wearing seatbelts and suffered insignificant injuries. The 2 passengers successful the back, however, were not wearing seatbelts, according to officers.
CHP says 1 of them, who the Fresno County Coroner's Office identified arsenic 24-year-old Kevin Juarez, was unresponsive and had to beryllium pulled from the wreckage. CPR was performed astatine the country and during transport to the hospital, but helium was yet pronounced dead.
After being medically cleared astatine the hospital, CHP says Mendoza Jr. was booked into the Fresno County Jail connected suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter portion intoxicated and DUI causing injury.
