A suspected drunken driver crashed into an apartment building Wednesday night near Newport Avenue,  causing a gas line break and the evacuation of a nearby apartment complex, police said.

Christopher Edward Kobernick was driving his orange Mitsubishi Lancer on Newport when he crashed into the northwest wall of a fourplex where a 6-year-old child was sleeping on the other side, said Sheila Miller, Bend Police spokesperson.

Police responded around 11:51 p.m. Wednesday to the damaged fourplex and found remnants of car parts, sheared gas meters and a trail of fluid leading away from the scene, Miller said. Eight people were inside at the time.

Law enforcement found the Lancer parked a few blocks away from the crash near the intersection of Newport Avenue and Harman Boulevard and Kobernick, 41, walking west along Newport Avenue, Miller said. He admitted to the crash and that the car was his. He told police he was leaving a nearby apartment complex when he spun out and lost control of his car.

Kobernick was arrested on suspicion of DUII, criminal mischief, reckless driving, hit and run and eight counts of reckless endangerment. He was not in the Deschutes County jail and  had not been charged by the Deschutes County District Attorney’s office as of Thursday morning, according to the jail roster and court records.

Residents were evacuated from the building, and Newport Avenue was closed for around an hour as Cascade Natural Gas repaired the severed main gas line and Bend Fire & Rescue performed safety checks. The building’s residents were able to return inside around 1 a.m., Miller said.

No one was injured as a result of the crash, she said.