Suspected Drunk Driver Arrested In Connection With Fatal Hit&Run

LONG BEACH, CA – A man was intentionally run down and killed on a Long Beach street and the driver was jailed Sunday for suspicion of murder.

Sokhorn Hor, 29, was believed to have engaged in a drunken fight with Victor Salvador Herrera, 40, moments before Herrera was run over and killed near Market Street and Orange Avenue. The alleged act of bloody, drunken violence occurred at 11 p.m. Saturday in the northern part of Long Beach, police officers said.

Hor then drove away in a red sedan, westbound on Market Street.

Shortly thereafter, officers spotted what appeared to be a drunken motorist 11 miles away, in the area of Temple Avenue and Willow Street, near Signal Hill. They tried to pull the motorist over.

But the red sedan took off to the south, and hit a parked vehicle two miles away, at 10th Street and Obispo Avenue. Hor was arrested, and then an investigation revealed it was the same sedan that had fatally struck Herrera.

Back at Market at Orange, paramedics took Herrera to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Hor, a resident of Long Beach, was arrested on suspicion of murder and was being held at the Long Beach City Jail in lieu of $2 million bail.

Long Beach homicide detectives asked anyone who saw the hit-and-run crash, or the events leading up to it, to call them at (562) 570-7244.

City News Service and Patch staffer Emily Holland contributed to this post; Image via Shutterstock