MARTINEZ — Prosecutors have filed charges against a 22-year-old Oregon man in connection with a crash that killed a 9-year-old girl and injured five others April 7 in Concord.
Jesus Ivan Dorantes Guzman is charged with hit-and-run resulting in death or serious injury and child abuse for putting a minor in a situation that caused her death, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office said Friday in A press release.
Prosecutors said the child abuse charge came with a specific allegation of serious bodily injury.
Dorantes Guzman was driving a Mazda CX-9 northbound on Interstate 680 around 5:15 a.m. April 7 when he crashed at the intersection of Highway 242, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The Mazda overturned in a dirty place. Among the five people injured, three were minors. The deceased girl was identified as Danna Hernandez Tapia, 9, of Tualatin, Oregon.
Prosecutors said Dorantes Guzman fled the scene and was found days later in the California town of Williams.
Dorantes Guzman’s arraignment will take place Monday at 1:30 p.m., according to the prosecutor’s office. He remains held at the Martinez Detention Center on $1 million bail.
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