allegedly fatally injured Salome Cigarrero Guevara<\/a>, 52, who was driving home from her job at Denny\u2019s on April 9, according to a news release from the Santa Clara County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\u201cMore than 10,000 people die in drunk driving incidents every year in this country,\u201d said District Attorney Jeff Rosen in the news release. \u201cNot one of them was what I would ever call an accident. Every single one was an avoidable criminal tragedy, and in this case \u2013 a murder.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burke was driving a Ford F-150 around 11:55 p.m. near Central Expressway and Commercial Street when he struck Guevara\u2019s Jeep Compass head-on, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived on the scene, they found Guevara in the front seat of her vehicle, which had sustained \u201cmajor front-end damage,\u201d prosecutors said. Authorities removed her from her vehicle, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Guevara, a Mountain View resident, was publicly identified Wednesday by the Santa Clara County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Burke was found in the front seat of his vehicle, which also suffered damage to the front, prosecutors added.<\/p>\n
Burke appeared in court for his arraignment Monday, prosecutors said. He remains in custody without bail, and will next appear in court June 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Jose man was charged with murder Monday for allegedly killing a woman while driving drunk and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,861,7,723,138,181,194,100,88,90,89,198,200,2442,203,16217],"class_list":{"0":"post-269957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-bay-area-crime","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-mountain-view","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-headlines","18":"tag-san-jose-news","19":"tag-santa-clara-county","20":"tag-south-bay","21":"tag-south-bay-crime","22":"tag-sunnyvale","23":"tag-traffic-fatalities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}