FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A repeat drunk driver has been charged with murder following a crash earlier this month that killed a 17-year-old boy. <\/p>\n
According to the Fresno County District Attorney\u2019s Office, 27-year-old Daniel Lemus was driving eastbound on Manning Avenue near South Mendocino Avenue just after 1:00 a.m., on Nov. 7, when he rear-ended a vehicle stopped at a red light. <\/p>\n
He left the scene and drove for another two miles before crashing into a Ford Mustang at the intersection of South Mendocino and East Rose Avenue.<\/p>\n
The driver, 17-year-old Christian Crabb, was taken to a nearby hospital where he later died, on Nov. 10. <\/p>\n
[RELATED] <\/a>Fatal collision in Visalia claims life of Jeep driver, BMW driver injured<\/a><\/p>\n An investigation by the California Highway Patrol determined Lemus was under the influence of alcohol during both crash, with a blood alcohol concentration above .15%.<\/p>\n He was arrested on Nov. 25 and remains in custody.<\/p>\n This is not Lemus\u2019 first fatal crash.<\/p>\n In 2019, he was charged for vehicular manslaughter in a crash that killed an 8-year-old boy in Reedley.<\/p>\n If convicted, Lemus faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n He is scheduled for arraignment on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n The case is being prosecuted through the Fresno County District Attorney\u2019s Alcohol and Drug Impaired Driver Vertical Prosecution Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A repeat drunk driver has been charged with murder following a crash earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-71616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71616","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=71616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}