{"id":59340,"date":"2025-11-18T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59340\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:23:09","slug":"hearing-for-dui-suspect-in-crash-killing-8-year-old-postponed-to-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59340\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing for DUI suspect in crash killing 8-year-old postponed to January"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The preliminary hearing for Andres Serna, accused of driving drunk in a crash that killed an 8-year-old boy, has been postponed to January. This delay means a judge’s decision on whether there is enough evidence to proceed to trial will not occur until at least that date. <\/p>\n

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Serna faces seven charges, including second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. He pleaded not guilty<\/a> on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n

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DUI suspect Andres Serna appears in court on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n

On Nov. 3, 2025, the 33-year-old allegedly drove his truck off the road, striking Xxavien Hernandez and his father, who were standing next to a food truck on East California Avenue.<\/p>\n

Xxavien died the following day. Court records indicate Serna had a blood alcohol level more than four times the legal limit and has two prior DUI convictions<\/a> – in 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n

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Serna is due back in court on Jan. 8, 2026, for a hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The preliminary hearing for Andres Serna, accused of driving drunk in a crash that killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-59340","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\/59340","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=59340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}