SEATTLE — Seattle police arrested a 43-year-old man on Monday in connection to a fatal hit-and-run incident that occurred last month.
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) said many people contacted them with information that helped detectives locate the motorcycle involved in the crash.
“Police transported the suspect to Harborview Medical Center for an unrelated medical issue,” wrote the SPD. “He will be booked into the King County Jail for Investigation of Hit and Run (Fatality), Vehicular Homicide, and Vehicular Assault.”
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The SPD initially reported that a motorcyclist fled after hitting two pedestrians in a crosswalk on April 18, and one woman died from her injuries. The crash happened off Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and South Alaska Street around 8:20 p.m.
A 59-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman were hit. The woman, who had significant head trauma, died on April 20.
Video obtained by KOMO News shows the motorcycle crash into two people in the crosswalk — knocking them to the ground — after it ran a red light. The motorcycle sped away.
Lizzy Chen said she remembers the call from officers, she never expected to hear what happened at the intersection near the Columbia City light rail station. She claims traffic camera footage shows her parents in the crosswalk moments before they were hit by a southbound motorcyclist. Chen said her mother, Min Huang, died on April 20.
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“Justice for us means holding the driver accountable and preventing this kind of thing from happening to another family,” Chen explained.
Her family offered a $20,000 reward in addition to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound for information leading to an arrest and charges.
You didn’t just hit two people,” said Chen. “You took away a mother, a wife, a friend, someone who meant the world to so many people. No matter how scared you were, leaving the scene was a choice that you made.
