The family of a California girl killed in a hit-and-run on Friday is offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of a person who fled the scene. Jayda Sanchez, 4, was riding with her father, Robert Sanchez, and 5-year-old brother on the 2600 block of Normandie Avenue in Los Angeles when …
A defense attorney of South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, charged in a deadly hit-and-run accident last fall, is focusing on the victim’s mental health, suggesting that Joseph Boever may have committed suicide. Ravnsborg, 45, is charged with three misdemeanor traffic charges in the incident, none of which allege criminal culpability, according to the Sioux …
On Thursday, Nebraska police arrested the driver allegedly responsible for Saturday’s hit-and-run that left a woman seriously injured. KOLN reported that Emilia Graham, 21, was lighting fireworks outside while hosting a party in Lincoln when Isabel Knapp-Cuevas, 22, struck her with her vehicle and drove off. Knapp-Cuevas allegedly also hit a parked car on the …
Investigators in Florida believe a 16-year-old girl found dead this weekend was killed in a hit-and-run crash, and are asking for the public’s help in locating the car that fatally hit her. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Dayana “Diani” Gomez Sanchez, 16, went for a run early Saturday morning in Miami. Her mother reported her missing …
A New York police officer was killed on Tuesday by a woman who allegedly admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana before the deadly crash. Hours before allegedly causing the hit-and-run wreck that killed NYPD officer Anastasios Tsakos, Jessica Beauvais was reportedly seen in a Facebook live stream drinking shots and vaping while talking about …
Police in Alabama recently released dashcam footage showing last year’s deadly crash that involved an 18-wheeler truck falling off an exit ramp. According to AL.com, commercial truck driver Charles Pearce Jr., 59, was killed in Birmingham on October 6 when a silver sedan and a white Nissan Cube collided on the Interstate 65 and Interstate …
Authorities in California are looking for three drivers who they say fatally struck a pedestrian on Sunday night. The Los Angeles Police Department provided surveillance footage to KABC showing the hit-and-run collisions that killed Jose Fuentes, 50. The video shows Fuentes crossing Central Avenue at 78th Street when a motorbike hits him. Two additional vehicles …
A Louisiana woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison Friday after she pleaded guilty to slamming a romantic rival into a building with a Ford Expedition, killing her. Shameka Ellis, 22, was scheduled to go to trial on September 28 on a second degree murder charge in the death of Lou’Quandelyn Hargrove, 22, last …
A 28-year-old Utah woman was facing at most a leaving the scene of an accident charge, but she ended up jailed on an attempted murder charge after she fled the accident scene, refused to stop when police ordered her to, and tried to run over an officer. Samantha Bencomo of Nephi allegedly backed into a …
A Michigan woman who reportedly killed an elderly man in a hit-and-run crash turned themself into police on Thursday. WJBK reported that suspect, who hasn’t been publicly identified, is believed to have crashed their Chevrolet Trailblazer into Arthur Brewer, 83, as he unloaded groceries in his driveway on Tuesday. After allegedly accelerating past a city …
An Iowa driver has been charged with murder and animal neglect after he slammed his truck into a woman walking her dog, killing both before speeding off. Police say Jason Robert Sassman, 49, was driving a pickup truck at a high rate of speed in northwest Des Moines shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, according to …
A Minnesota man was sentenced to 54 years on Tuesday for the hit-and-run crash that killed three Girl Scouts and one of the girls’ mothers as they picked up trash along a highway in November 2018. The Leader-Telegram reported that Colten Treu, 23, was sentenced to 11 years for each death — Jayna Kelley, 9; …
