Police arrest suspect in Elk Grove hit-and-run that killed man fixing flat tire
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- Police arrested a 31-year-old Elk Grove man on suspicion of fatal hit-and-run.
- Police said investigators found a silver Dodge Ram pickup seen in traffic camera video.
- The man who died was fixing a flat tire Tuesday night when the vehicle struck him.
Police have arrested a man suspected of a driving a vehicle that struck a 61-year-old man fixing a flat tire Tuesday night along an Elk Grove road in a fatal hit-and-run.
The 31-year-old Elk Grove man was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run resulting in permanent injury or death, the Elk Grove Police Department announced Thursday afternoon in a news release.
The hit-and-run suspect was booked at the Sacramento County Jail. He was released after posting a bail bond Thursday, jail records show.
The 61-year-old man was fixing the flat tire at 7 p.m. Tuesday on Bruceville Road, between Bilby Road and Boa Nova Drive, near the southern end of Elk Grove.
Police said the suspect vehicle, a Dodge pickup, was heading south on Bruceville, when it struck the man repairing the flat tire on his vehicle parked on the road’s west shoulder.
The driver of the Dodge pickup left before officers arrived, police said. The injured man was taken to a hospital where he later died. As of Thursday afternoon, the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office had not released the victim’s name.
While reviewing traffic camera videos, police investigators spotted the Dodge pickup in the area at the time of the hit-and-run. In a news release Wednesday afternoon, the Police Department asked the public to help find the suspect vehicle which was described as a Dodge pickup truck believed to have damage to the front passenger side.
On Wednesday night, officers detained the hit-and-run suspect after he was spotted leaving a Sacramento home. Police said the suspect, the Elk Grove man taken into custody and later arrested, is the owner of a silver Dodge Ram pickup.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for the Elk Grove man’s home, not far from where the hit-and-run occurred, and found the silver Dodge pickup in the garage with evidence of it being involved in the fatal hit-and-run, according to the Police Department.
