Detectives on Thursday arrested a 37-year-old man accused of killing an 81-year-old man in a hit-and-run in White Center just after 10 p.m. on April 22.
A fatal hit-and-run in White Center , at SW Roxbury Street and 15th Ave SW, just after 10 p.m. on April 22, 2024, killed 81-year-old Thomas Garrett. A 37-year-old man was arrested in connection to the case on May 16, 2024. . He was fatally struck by a Jeep , whose driver fled the scene, the KCSO said. Garrett was rushed to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he died.
The KCSO said the driver was arrested Thursday "without incident on a traffic stop as he was leaving a home in the Puyallup area." He was booked into King County jail, the KCSO added."The driver subsequently admitted that he moved the Jeep to Port Orchard, where he had it parked under a tarp at a family member’s residence," the KCSO wrote online.
Standing on the street corner, he pointed out the drivers who stopped right on the crosswalk, leaving people no place to safely walk across the street.
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