A 14-year-old girl killed in a crash involving a DUI suspect on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach over the weekend was named by officials Monday.

Rosenda Elizabeth Smiley was struck by a car Saturday evening in the area of Balboa Boulevard and Palm Street, about a block from the Balboa Fun Zone in Orange County.

Emergency crews responded to the location but Smiley, who is from Rialto, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Fourteen-year-old Rosenda Elizabeth Smiley was killed in a suspected DUI crash in Newport Beach on May 25, 2024.
Fourteen-year-old Rosenda Elizabeth Smiley was killed in a suspected DUI crash in Newport Beach on May 25, 2024. (KTLA)

Thirty-year-old Fontana resident Joseph Alcazar was arrested following the crash.

He was booked on suspicion of homicide by traffic fatality and cruelty to a child.

Investigators believe alcohol may have been a factor in the crash but did not provide any further details.