Overview
- Torrance Irby, 26, was charged with operating while intoxicated causing death and failure to stop at a crash resulting in serious impairment or death.
- Prosecutors say Irby struck a Ford Mustang on Metropolitan Parkway near Groesbeck Highway, pushing it into the rear of a van.
- The Mustang’s driver, El Verson Mitchell, 27, of Ann Arbor, was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
- Authorities allege Irby fled the scene on foot before being apprehended, and a judge set bond at $250,000 cash or surety.
- Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido called impaired driving a preventable danger as the case proceeds with charges not yet proven in court.