A man who drove under the influence and struck two people standing outside their vehicle in Pacific Beach, killing one of them, pleaded guilty this week to charges that include murder.
Nestor Alejandro Hernandez, 24, admitted Thursday to the Jan. 22, 2023, crash that killed 22-year-old Arizona resident Vanessa Urbina Aragonez.
Police said that around 1:30 a.m., Urbina Aragonez and her boyfriend were standing on the sidewalk next to their parked SUV on Riviera Drive when they were struck by a Toyota Tacoma driven by Hernandez.
The impact killed Urbina Aragonez at the scene and left her 24-year- old boyfriend pinned underneath the crashed pickup truck.
Hernandez was arrested at the scene. He’s scheduled for sentencing in November.
A GoFundMe page created by Urbina Aragonez’s brother described her as an aspiring nurse and “a beautiful, outgoing person” who “had a great sense of humor and a very generous heart.” Phoenix, Arizona-based 12News reported last year that she and her boyfriend had driven to San Diego for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, but had gotten a flat tire and were waiting for a rideshare vehicle when they were struck.
Urbina Aragonez’s brother, Eduardo, told the station she and her boyfriend had been dating for six years at the time of her death.
–City News Service
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