A 71-year-old woman was killed by a suspected drunken driver while walking on a Murrieta street, authorities said Thursday.
Gloria Henry of Murrieta was fatally struck about 8 a.m. Wednesday on Clinton Keith Road just east of Via Mariposa, according to the Murrieta Police Department.
The agency did not immediately release details of what happened, saying only that additional information would be posted to social media Thursday afternoon.
Rodney Wayne Phillips, 57, was arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and hit-and-run resulting in death following a police Traffic Bureau investigation at the scene.
Phillips is being held on $75,000 bail at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.
No background information on the suspect was available.