FOREST LAKES FIRE DISTRICT, AZ — The driver in a deadly crash that killed four people and seriously injured two Monday, has been charged with four counts of manslaughter and two counts of aggravated assault.
According to police, at around 12:30 p.m. the head-on collision happened at SR-260 at milepost 300, around 4 miles west of Heber.
Giovanni Uballe Huerta, 26 from Laveen; Kiah Jae Begaye, 26, from Mesa; a four-year-old from Mesa and a two-year-old from Mesa were in a black passenger vehicle and died as a result of the crash.
Two people in a pickup truck , a 14-year-old boy and a 21-year-old woman from New Mexico, were transported to the hospital with serious injuries.
The driver of the pickup truck, 21-year-old Jesse David Lovato from New Mexico, was booked into the Navajo County Detention Center in Holbook for four counts of manslaughter and two counts of aggravated assault.
Two victims with serious injuries have been transported to the hospital by helicopter.
The Arizona Department of Public safety Vehicular Crimes Unit detectives are leading the investigation.
Impairment has not been ruled out.
