Scumbag Tyler Burdhimo
2520-22. Syracuse, NY. May 6-8. 31-year-old man injured when hit by a blue Honda sedan which fled Tuesday; 30-year-old bicyclist injured when sideswiped by a gray PT Cruiser which fled on Monday; 4-year-old boy injured while playing when struck by a gold car, possibly a late-model Buick, which left the scene on Sunday.
2523. Concord, Cal. May 8. 4-year-old girl expected to survive after being struck by a newer model, light blue pickup truck with oversized tires that fled the scene.
2524. Savannah, Ga. May 8. 29-year-old man injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene and was later recovered, but the driver has not been found.
2525. Phoenix, Az. May 7. 60-year-old mother of nine children broke both legs, her back, and suffered several cuts and deep bruises when struck by an early 2000’s Chevy or GMC white pickup with a white bed cover which fled the scene.
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Suspect named in Fla. hit-and-run of Chester County college student…
“Soft hits — there was no scratches in the paint. It was just indents. I thought he hit an animal,” Castro said. “Again, I asked him what he had hit, and he just completely changed the conversation. He was very cautious to what he was saying.”
Once he saw police reports about a hit-and-run that injured UM student Eliza Gresh in South Miami, he reached out to police.
“I said, ‘Man, that’s the car I have,'” Castro said. “I have a young daughter, a 20-year-old daughter. If that happened to me, I would appreciate someone doing it for me.”
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One of those horrible things you cant un-see and situations you can do nothing to help. I was on York in the left turn lane waiting at the light.
The car did not swerve, stop, or even pause. This is unbelievable to me. The victim is either gravely injured or killed. If I heard the thunk a hundred feet away or so I know the driver knew he hit someone. (h/t @ryanroat)
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The arrest of an exchange student in one of three hit-and-run crashes during an 18-hour span Thursday was made with the help of a Buffalo police surveillance camera, Mayor Byron W. Brown said Monday.
Tornubari G. Gbaraba, 19, of Nigeria, is accused of striking 18-year-old Victor Jerez at about 3 a.m. Thursday at Grant and Letchworth streets.
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The driver suspected of seriously injuring a 57-year-old Los Angeles woman and her 5-year-old foster son in a hit-and-run last week was arrested Monday after turning himself into authorities.
Steve Smith, 43, was booked in the Metropolitan Detention Center on felony charges of hit-and-run, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
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The hit-and-run victim, whose identity is still unknown, remains in critical condition at Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
However, Officer Harold Campton, a traffic homicide investigator, said the man has two distinct tattoos. One is the cartoon character The Tasmanian Devil on his right shoulder. The other tattoo, on his upper left arm, is a drawing of a human hand with the middle finger extended and with running feet.
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The North Texas mother allegedly carjacked and run over with her own vehicle is in critical condition at a Fort Worth hospital. Police say a man trying to steal computer equipment from a North Texas private school committed the crime.
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The hit-and-run driver accused of killing a woman in Oakland Park claimed he had run over a dog, according to a police report read in court by Broward Judge John “Jay” Hurley on Wednesday.
Tyler Burdhimo, 18, remained silent during his first appearance hearing, but his parents told Hurley their son works hard and is three weeks shy of graduation at Northeast High school.
“Even somebody who would have hit a dog would have stopped and gotten out of the car,” said Hurley, who set Burdhimo’s bond at $17,500.
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The man arrested Tuesday in connection to the hit-and-run death of 14-year-old Ricardo “Ricky” Figueroa has a bad driving history that had stripped him of his license prior to the fatal crash, Colorado Springs police said.
Court records show that in the last 10 years, David Allan Henley Jr. pleaded guilty in connection with several traffic offenses, including felony vehicular eluding in 2005 and multiple counts of both driving with a revoked license and driving under restraint.
Police labeled Henley “a habitual traffic offender.”
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FORT LAUDERDALE — Melvin Jonathan “Jon” Gouthro spent his last able-bodied day living life the way he most enjoyed it: Hosting friends aboard his 43-foot yacht “Counting Dreams” during the Lauderdale Air Show.
Ten days later, he succumbed to injuries received in a hit-and-run crash.
“He lost his battle to survive,” R. Keith Walton, Gouthro’s partner in a Boca Raton accounting firm, said Wednesday.
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A Union City man was offered a plea deal, that could put him in prison for up to 10 years, at his arraignment yesterday on charges he killed a Bayonne man in a hit-and-run in Jersey City in July, The Jersey Journal reports.