Woman Arrested In Connection With Fatal Hit And Run In South Sac

SOUTH SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A pistillate has been arrested aft she allegedly deed and killed a pedestrian overnight successful South Sacramento. Police accidental she was nether the power astatine the clip of the crash.

At astir 1:20 a.m. Sunday, Sacramento constabulary were called to the country of Stockton Blvd. and Fruitridge Rd., wherever a motorist had reportedly deed a pedestrian, past left. At the scene, officers recovered a man, who was critically injured. Police tried to assistance the man, but helium died astatine the scene, according to a Sacramento Police Department statement.

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A abbreviated clip later, the fishy conveyance and operator were reportedly located by authorities adjacent to wherever the hit-and-run clang had occurred. Investigators reportedly determined the driver, identified arsenic 33-year-old Oletha Durham, had stolen the conveyance and was driving nether the influence.

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Durham was arrested connected charges of felony vehicular manslaughter, leaving the country of a collision, conveyance theft, and driving nether the influence.

The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office volition merchandise the individuality of the unfortunate aft his adjacent of kin person been notified, they say.

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The Sacramento Police Department encourages immoderate witnesses with accusation regarding this probe to interaction the dispatch halfway astatine (916) 808-5471 oregon Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers astatine (916) 443-HELP (4357). Callers tin stay anonymous and whitethorn beryllium eligible for a reward up to $1,000.

CBS13 Staff