October 21, 2011
A 17-year-old has been charged in Tuesday’s fatal hit-and-run, which occurred at the intersection of Cleburne and Dowling around 11:20 p.m.
Police say the crash killed a 27-year-old Lancaster female, a second-year student at Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law.
The male teen had reportedly been traveling east on Cleburne in a Buick LeSabre when he ran a red light near Dowling, colliding with a Nissan Altima in which the victim was a passenger. The Houston Chronicle reports that the teen had been speeding away from a police officer who had approached his car minutes earlier while investigating a suspicious car. The officer reportedly asked the teen driver and his passenger to get out of the vehicle. The passenger got out and was detained, but the teen sped away.
The teen, who surrendered to police on Wednesday after leaving the scene of the crash Tuesday night, has been charged with manslaughter and accident involving injury/death.
The driver and another passenger in the Nissan were taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital. The surviving passenger was listed in critical condition on Wednesday.
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