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Kings Co. coroners ID 2 in Lemoore crash

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The Kings County Sheriff's Coroner Office have identified the two people killed in their vehicle that crashed into a back of a jet while they were chase in Lemoore earlier this week.  

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The coroners identified the two as 29-year-old Raymond Castillo of Campbell and 36-year-old Melissa Marie Miller of San Jose.

Officials said Castillo was transported to a local hospital where he later died of his injuries.

The two led CHP officers on a chase that started in Fresno County and ended at NAS Lemoore when the jeep the two were in crashed into a parked fighter jet.

Miller was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to our affiliate KFSN in Fresno, the two had arrest warrants out of the bay area.

Castillo had been arrested twice in Kings County on theft charges back in 2010.