A twice-convicted drunken driver who pleaded guilty to murder for an alcohol-fueled crash that killed two people on the Santa Ana (5) Freeway in Irvine in 2021 is scheduled to be sentenced July 25.

According to the California Highway Patrol, Shalaya A. Sierra, 23, of San Diego, was driving a 2016 Honda Civic, which stopped on the right shoulder of the southbound Santa Ana Freeway, just north of Yale Avenue, at 2:10 a.m. Nov. 14, 2021.

A man got out of the car and was struck — to an unknown severity — by another vehicle, according to the CHP.

Jorge ErastoCruz, driving a GMC Yukon, “made an evasive maneuver” because the man who had been struck was in the road, but he veered off the roadway to the right and slammed into the rear of the stopped Honda Civic, the CHP reported.

“As a result o

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