The Riverside County coroner’s office Sunday named two 21- year-old women who were killed when their car was rear-ended by a suspected DUI driver at a Hemet intersection.

The crash was reported at about 4 a.m. Saturday, according to the Hemet Police Department.

Investigators said Jesus Rios, 33, of Downey was driving east on Florida Avenue, approaching Kirby Street, in a BMW 535i sedan when he failed to break at the intersection and rear-ended a Honda Fit hatchback stopped at a red traffic signal.

Dane Adkins-Radford, who was riding in the Honda, was pronounced dead at the scene while Emily Hale, also in the Honda, was taken to Riverside University Health System Medical Center, where she later died of her injuries, according to the coroner’s office. Both women were Hemet residents.

A third person in the Honda was seriously injured but is expected to survive, said Sgt. Dan Reinbolt.

Rios was uninjured and allegedly attempted to flee on foot after the crash but was stopped by a witness at the scene, police said.

Rios was eventually arrested and booked into the Southwest Detention Center on suspicion of DUI, two counts of vehicular homicide and attempted hit and run, according to Reinbolt.

He remained jailed in lieu of $1 million bail.

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By City News Service, News Partner

MORENO VALLEY, CA — A man who ran over and killed a 76-year-old pedestrian in Moreno Valley while driving under the influence was convicted Tuesday of felony vehicular manslaughter.

Following two days of deliberations, a Riverside jury found Roben Gaby Noujaim, 36, of Moreno Valley guilty of the manslaughter count, as well as driving under the influence resulting in great bodily injury and a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of a controlled substance.

Noujaim, who is being held without bail at the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside, is slated to be sentenced on Jan. 8 at the Riverside Hall of Justice.

The defendant was arrested April 22 following a lengthy investigation by sheriff’s detectives into the September 2019 death of Lorenzo Romero, also of Moreno Valley.

Sheriff’s Deputy Rafael Lopez said the victim was walking on Graham Street, just north of Old Valley Drive, when he was struck by a sedan about 7:45 p.m. on Sept. 10, 2019. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene roughly 25 minutes later.

Noujaim did not flee and was taken into custody on the spot, but he was released from jail that week pending further investigation.

He had no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County.

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