Ex-Marine Sentenced to 15 Years to Life for DUI Wrong-Way Crash
VISTA, Calif.—A former Camp Pendleton Marine who drove drunk and caused a wrong-way crash that killed a motorcyclist in Fallbrook was sentenced Aug. 25 to 15 years to life in state prison.
Adam Daniel Barooshian, 29, was convicted of second-degree murder for the New Year’s Day 2019 crash that killed 29-year-old Christopher Williams of Oceanside.
At the time of the crash, Barooshian was on probation for a prior DUI offense, prosecutors said.
He was tried twice, with jurors in his first trial convicting him of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and DUI causing injury. The first jury was unable to reach a consensus on the second-degree murder charge, leading to Barooshian’s second trial in Vista earlier this year….