INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – A motorist accused of killing a 57-year-old woman in a DUI collision at a Rancho Mirage intersection pleaded not guilty today to second-degree murder and other charges.
Tyler Jordan Conant, 23, of Long Beach was arrested Saturday following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the death of Teresa Bowlin of Cathedral City.
Along with murder, Conant is charged with DUI resulting in great bodily injury, DUI with excessive intoxication and sentence-enhancing allegations of reckless driving and hit-and-run resulting in a fatality.
The defendant was arraigned Wednesday before Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Tucker, who scheduled a felony settlement conference for May 29 at the Larson Justice Center in Indio…