A 33-year-old man has pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving crash that killed four people in Santa Ana five years ago.
Vincent Michael Calvo pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 28, to four counts of second-degree murder. He faces sentencing on April 9.
According to the criminal complaint, Calvo’s blood-alcohol level was measured at .29 — more than three times the legal limit.
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Killed in the Feb. 17, 2019, two-vehicle collision were 31-year-old Jose Alberto Avila-Rosas — the driver of the other vehicle — and his passengers: Zimoara Zaragoza, 23, of Garden Grove; Antonio Alonso Santibanez, 23, of Orange; and Prisma Yuliana Montoya, 34, of Santa Ana.
Calvo was behind the wheel of a Jeep that was westbound on Fourth Street when it collided with a southbound Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck at Tustin Avenue, police said. Investigators said he failed to stop for a red light.
Both vehicles flipped over multiple times.
Calvo got out of the Jeep at the same time an off-duty firefighter and his wife, who is a nurse, stopped to help the victims, who were trapped in the pickup truck, which caught fire, police said.
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All four in the pickup were pronounced dead at the scene.
The firefighter was able to put out the flames and his wife rendered aid to Calvo, the Jeep occupant.
Police said Calvo, who appeared to be “extremely impaired,” was taken to an hospital, where he was treated.
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