Published on Tuesday, January 26, 2010
By SB Sun Staff Writer
POMONA - Prosecutors filed two counts of murder and other charges Tuesday against a man accused of killing two passengers in a drunken-driving crash Saturday in La Verne.
Alan Michael McConnell, 27, could face a life sentence if convicted of murder for the crash that killed Renee Hardy, 20, and Telassie "Lassie" Dague, 22, both of Rancho Cucamonga.
McConnell, of Covina, appeared Tuesday afternoon in Pomona Superior Court to be arraigned, but the hearing was postponed to Feb. 10. He remained jailed Tuesday in lieu of $2 million bail.
According to prosecutors, McConnell was intoxicated at about 12:45 a.m. Saturday as he drove east on Foothill Boulevard in Dague's car.
The car collided with another car at Foothill and Damien Avenue, authorities said. As McConnell tried to flee the crash scene, he lost control and struck a tree in the median of Foothill, west of Wheeler Avenue.
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