BERKELEY — Prosecutors on Thursday charged a North Bay man with a number of counts of premeditated tried homicide and utilizing a motorized vehicle as a lethal weapon in reference to a pair of hit-and-run collisions earlier this week in Berkeley.
Ivan Salvador Ochoa Munguia, 26, of Vallejo, can also be going through felony prices of leaving the scene of an accident leading to an damage aside from to himself, illegal driving or taking a car, tried illegal driving or taking a car, and receiving stolen property, in response to the Alameda County District Legal professional’s Workplace.
The costs embody sentencing enhancements for the usage of a lethal weapon and inflicting nice bodily damage.
On Tuesday morning, Ochoa Munguia hit two victims — a 46-year-old lady out for a jog and a 30-year-old man strolling his canine — within the 2700 block of Belrose Avenue, in response to police.
A 3rd sufferer — a 78-year-old man driving his bicycle — was discovered in a while Derby Road.
All three victims had been taken to space hospitals, the place they had been listed in secure situation.
Berkeley police Officer Jessica Perry described the collisions as “deliberate acts.”
“While the victims involved in these crashes do not appear to have been specifically targeted, the crashes themselves appear to be deliberate acts by the suspect,” Perry stated. “There is no evidence to suggest these acts were racially or politically motivated.”
Ochoa Munguia was additionally linked to a pair of carjackings — each involving ladies driving their youngsters to high school — on Garber Road, police stated. No accidents had been reported.
Officers arrested Ochoa Munguia on Faculty Avenue after he tried to steal one other automotive, in response to police.
The automotive Ochoa Munguia was driving had been reported stolen in Richmond, police stated.
Ochoa Munguia was arraigned Thursday and is slated to return to court docket Oct. 1 for a plea listening to.
