Police in Pomona mentioned Monday morning they’d recognized a suspect in a deadly hit-and-run after he sought remedy at a hospital.
Two folks in an SUV have been killed and a 3rd critically injured within the crash round 8:45 p.m. Sunday on Garey Avenue north of Bonita Avenue. Police discovered a second automobile, a automobile that had slammed right into a tree, deserted. Witnesses reported {that a} man had fled on foot, in line with authorities.
Simply after 3 a.m., with officers nonetheless on the scene investigating, a person checked himself right into a hospital in Montclair with accidents in keeping with a automobile wreck, police mentioned.
“The hospital workers contacted us,” mentioned public data officer Aly Mejia. “The final I heard we have been simply ready for him to be medically discharged so we are able to guide him into the jail.”
Mejia mentioned she didn’t know the anticipated expenses.
The SUV was overturned within the crash, and the motive force and front-seat passenger, a person and a lady, died on the scene, police mentioned. A back-seat passenger, a lady, was faraway from the wrecked automobile by firefighters and brought to the hospital in essential situation, the place she remained Monday morning, police mentioned.
Mejia mentioned investigators have been trying into whether or not the second automobile was stolen. A witness advised a number of information retailers that he noticed a person operating from the accident with a backpack and briefly chased him.
“Every thing was chaotic,” the witness, Invoice Ryczek, mentioned.
