PHOENIX — The driver in a fatal hit-and-run crash has been arrested after he fled the scene after hitting another man early Sunday morning, Phoenix police said.
Around 2:30 a.m. officers responded to a call for a serious crash near 4200 West Bell Road to the north of Glendale.
According to reports on the scene, a sedan had struck a pedestrian in the area and fled the scene. A witness followed that sedan and helped officers find it a short distance away, authorities said.
Police arrested the driver, 21-year-old Even Alamos Santivanez, and later booked him into a local jail.
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The pedestrian, later identified as 41-year-old Daniel Callanta, was taken to a local hospital where he died of his injuries.
Officials are still investigating the circumstances around the crash, and have not said if impairment was a factor or not.
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