A Utah man was charged Tuesday with murder and other counts stemming from a hit-and-run crash that killed a Texas man riding an electric scooter in Hollywood.
Jared Walter Anderson, 26, of Enoch, Utah, allegedly failed to yield to oncoming traffic at Vine Street and Sunset Boulevard in the early morning hours Saturday, struck Evan Dyer Faram, 31, of Dallas, in a marked crosswalk and then ran over the victim with a pickup truck while fleeing from police.
Faram died at a hospital.
Anderson allegedly drove against traffic and failed to stop at traffic signals and stop lights before crashing the truck in a residential area, according to prosecutors.
He has remained jailed in lieu of $2 million bail since his arrest by Los Angeles police about 3:15 a.m. Saturday, according to jail records.
Anderson is set to be arraigned April 29 in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on one felony count each of murder, vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, hit-and-run driving resulting in death to another person and fleeing a pursuing peace officer’s motor vehicle causing death, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The criminal complaint alleges that Anderson has a 2015 conviction in Utah for driving under the influence.
If convicted as charged, he could face a potential 26-year-to-life term in state prison.
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