Driver arrested on Treasure Island after fatal Tenderloin hit-and-run
A man struck on the 800 block of Ellis Street early Sunday died at a hospital. CHP had the car stopped for an unrelated violation when SFPD caught up.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 2 min read
Colorful Victorian houses on a sunny street in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. Photo: Nicolas Lannuzel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
San Francisco police arrested a woman on suspicion of homicide after a man was struck and killed by a car on the 800 block of Ellis Street in the Tenderloin early Sunday, Oct. 25.
Why it matters: It's the latest deadly pedestrian crash in the Tenderloin, and the driver left before officers arrived.
What police say
Officers responded at about 1:05 a.m. and found the man injured. He died at a hospital. His name has not been released.
Investigators traced the car to Treasure Island, where CHP officers had already stopped it for an unrelated traffic violation.
The driver was booked into San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of homicide. Police haven't released her name.
The investigation is ongoing.
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