Man charged with murder, DUI after weekend crash in Santa Ana

SANTA ANA — Murder and drunken driving charges were filed Tuesday against a 29-year-old man accused in a fatal crash in Santa Ana over the weekend.

Jesus Segura Herrera of Orange is charged with second-degree murder, driving with a blood-alcohol level in excess of .08 percent or more causing injury and driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, all felonies. He also faces two sentencing enhancement allegations of causing great bodily injury.

The crash happened about 2:20 a.m. on Sunday at Grand and McFadden avenues. Santa Ana police reported that Herrera was traveling northbound on Grand in an Acura TL that rear-ended a Scion XD. The vehicles continued across the intersection before coming to a stop in the southbound lanes of Grand north of the intersection.

Jorge Davalos Carrillo, 39, of Garden Grove, who was a passenger in the Scion, was pronounced dead at the scene, said Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. The Scion’s driver was taken an area hospital with injuries of unknown severity.

Carrillo, who had a prior DUI conviction, was “out with friends and called for a designated driver, so a friend picked him up to drive him home and he got killed by a suspected drunk driver,” Bertagna said.