The Santa Clara County District Attorney\u2019s Office has charged a San Jose man with murder, alleging that he drove drunk the wrong way down a Sunnyvale highway and killed a 52-year-old Mountain View woman on her way home from work at a Denny\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Brian Burke, 34, is accused of driving his Ford F-150 head-on into a Jeep being driven by the victim.<\/p>\n
Burke was arraigned on the murder charge on April 13, and held without bail. His next court date is June 2.<\/p>\n
District Attorney Jeff Rosen thanked the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety officers for their thorough investigation and said: \u201cMore than 10,000 people die in drunk driving incidents every year in this country. Not 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
On April 9 at approximately 10:55pm, Sunnyvale officers responded to the intersection of Central Expressway and Commercial Street in Sunnyvale, on a report of a vehicle collision.<\/p>\n
At the scene, officers found the suspect seated in the driver seat of a pickup truck with major front-end damage. Officers said the victim, seated in the driver seat of a black Jeep Compass with major front-end damage, was extricated from the vehicle with major injuries but was pronounced dead at the collision scene.<\/p>\n
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