Driver who killed pedestrian in hit-and-run close to Downtown Miami arrested
NBC 6– A driver who struck and killed a pedestrian then fled the scene close to downtown Miami has been arrested, police stated.
Brandon Campos, 19, was arrested Friday on a cost of leaving the scene of a crash involving loss of life, an arrest report stated.
In response to the report, Campos was driving a gray Ford Mustang in space of Southwest 2nd Avenue and Southwest 2nd Avenue round 6:30 a.m. on March 25 when for an unknown cause he misplaced management and struck the sufferer on the sidewalk.
The crash left the sufferer pinned between the Mustang and a concrete put up, the report stated.
A witness who heard the crash and ran to help stated Campos obtained out of the Mustang and requested the witness to assist him push his automobile that was caught on the curb, the report stated.
The witness then realized the sufferer was wedged between the automobile and the put up, the report stated.
Across the similar time, a white Dodge Charger arrived on the scene and the individuals inside who seemed to be associates with Campos helped Campos push his automobile off the sufferer, the report stated.
Campos then fled the scene within the Mustang, and the Charger additionally fled, the report stated.
One other witness ran over to the scene however “rapidly realized one thing legal was taking place when she noticed the occupants within the white Charger,” the report stated.
That witness took a photograph of the Charger’s license plate, the report stated.
An officer arrived and located the pedestrian useless on the nook of the intersection. The sufferer’s id hasn’t been launched.
The report stated a name for service had been acquired from a SOS crash system stating a collision had occurred on the intersection involving a automobile owned by Campos, the report stated.
A 3rd witness, a contract journalist, noticed tire marks and scrapes on the street and adopted them to a close-by parking storage, the place he discovered the Mustang lined with a white sheet, the report stated.
The Mustang had a broken entrance finish and purple stains on it that seemed to be blood, the report stated.
“The automobile had injury in keeping with the crash and blood splattered all through the surface of the automobile,” the report stated. “Wiping marks have been current everywhere in the entrance finish, and windshield of the automobile, as if an try was made to wipe off the proof.”
The primary two witnesses later recognized Campos as the driving force throughout picture lineups, the report stated.
Campos was arrested and booked into jail, the place he was being held on a $25,000 bond, data confirmed. Lawyer info wasn’t out there.