Suspect Arrested After Fatal DUI Crash, Charged with Murder
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Rafu Wire and Staff Reports
SANTA ANA Pedro Pantoja Jr., 29, of Diamond Bar was charged April 20 with second-degree murder for allegedly triggering a fatal wrong-way crash while eluding police.
Pantoja was arrested on April 18 after he was involved in two crashes. The first crash happened at about 8:45 a.m. at the 2800 block of Park Avenue, near the Costco at the District at Tustin.
David Kawashima, 62, of Orange was killed in the first crash. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
As Tustin police were responding to that accident, the suspect fled. A police pursuit began and it ended with another crash when the suspect, going north in the southbound lanes of Jamboree Road, collided with another vehicle north of Warner Avenue.