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JOHNSTON COUNTY, North Carolina -- Troopers have charged Hipolito Zamora Hernandez with second degree murder after he hit and killed a 7-year-old boy (Marcus Lassister) while allegedly driving drunk.
Hernandez, who is charged in the fatal hit-and-run death of a Cooper Elementary School student, was also charged in Johnston County with drunken driving at least four times since 2004, court officials said. Those previous charges were either dismissed or reduced, records show.
Hipolito Zamora Hernandez's background includes a one drunken driving arrest in 2004. That charge, according to the Johnston County Clerk of Court's Office, was dismissed. During his court appearance for a second DWI charge, Hernandez, 30, of Parktown Road, plead guilty only to reckless driving to endanger.
Court records show he also has an outstanding drunken driving charge from Dec. 2007 for drunken driving and driving left of the center lane. He also was set to appear in Johnston County's Traffic Court on May 23 for a charge of speeding.
Posted by tyne at April 20, 2008