{"id":40005,"date":"2025-11-06T01:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/40005\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:01:50","slug":"eight-year-old-identified-in-suspected-dui-crash-suspect-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/40005\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-year-old identified in suspected DUI crash, suspect pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The eight-year-old boy who died after being struck by a suspected DUI driver on Monday on East California Avenue has been identified as Xxavien Lee Alvarez Hernandez of Bakersfield. <\/p>\n

The man accused of driving while intoxicated pleaded not guilty in court on Wednesday. Andres Serna, 33, faces charges of murder and DUI.<\/p>\n

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The Kern County coroner and Bakersfield police reported that Hernandez and his father were hit on Monday at 12:09 p.m. in the 1400 block of East California Avenue by a man driving a black Nissan pickup truck. Hernandez died from his injuries the following morning at Valley Children’s Hospital, while his father sustained moderate injuries. <\/p>\n

The driver, Serna, was found to be allegedly under the influence of alcohol and was arrested for DUI.<\/p>\n

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Police added a murder charge due to Serna’s two prior DUI convictions. <\/p>\n

Serna pleaded not guilty in Kern County Superior Court on Wednesday. He is due back in court on Nov. 14 for a hearing.<\/p>\n

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A GoFundMe page<\/a> had earlier identified the boy as Xxavian Hernandez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The eight-year-old boy who died after being struck by a suspected DUI driver on Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-40005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40005","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=40005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}