SAN JOSE — A 33-year-old San Jose man was arrested Wednesday in reference to a deadly hit-and-run collision two days earlier close to the SAP Middle, in accordance with authorities.
The suspect was driving a black 2021 Ram pickup truck eastbound on Santa Clara Road when he hit a girl driving an electrical scooter northbound within the east crosswalk, Hernandez mentioned.
The girl was taken to an space hospital, the place she died of her accidents. The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Workplace recognized her as Monica Violete Ibarra, 52, of San Francisco.
The demise was the twenty fourth visitors fatality of the yr on metropolis streets.
The motive force didn’t cease on the scene, Hernandez mentioned, including that officers later discovered the truck unoccupied. The truck was decided to be an unreported stolen automobile.
Detectives, with the help of patrol officers, recognized the suspect as Justin Perez and obtained warrants for his arrest and to go looking his residence, Hernandez mentioned. On Wednesday, he was taken into custody in San Jose and booked into the Santa Clara County Most important Jail on fees associated to hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter.
Perez is being held on $530,000 bail, in accordance with jail information.
