Monday, February 2, 2009

Suspected Hit and Run Driver Of Mother, Infant and 5 Year Old Arrested

February 2, 2009 (by Otto Smyth)

According to reports by personal injury lawyers in Los Angeles, the driver of the vehicle suspected of a hit and run involving a mother, her infant who was fatally injured and her 5 year old daughter has been arrested.

The hit and run accident occurred in the vicinity of Westlake Sunday at approximately 11:30 p.m. Los Angeles Police Department detectives from the Central Traffic Division arrested a man suspected of the hit and run a few hours later. The alleged hit and run driver has been identified as Henry Yovanni Moreno age 30, a resident of South Gate.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department it is suspected that Moreno was driving under the influence at the time of hit and run accident that critically injured the 5 year old daughter, fatally injured an 11 month old infant and moderately injured the children’s mother.

The mother was reportedly pushing the child and the infant in a stroller across Bonnie Brae Avenue at Olympic Boulevard when they were allegedly struck by Moreno who was driving a black 1991 Honda. It is then alleged Moreno fled the scene of the accident according to Los Angeles Police Officer Sara Fadden and abandoned the Honda in the vicinity of Staples Center.

Moreno was arrested and charged with suspicion of vehicular homicide later Sunday night according to Officer Fadden. The names of the children and their mother have not been released.

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