Overview

• Officers responded around 2:34 a.m. Sunday to Hayes Avenue and Lily Ann Way in South San Jose, near the Magic Sands mobile home community.
• Investigators say a 2017 silver Mercedes drove through a T-intersection, mounted the north curb where the victim was positioned in a wheelchair, then crashed into an iron fence.
• The victim was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, and authorities have not released his identity.
• Police say the driver fled but was located minutes later at a nearby residence and booked into Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of felony hit-and-run and manslaughter.
• This case is recorded as San Jose’s 22nd traffic death of the year and the 12th involving a pedestrian, and the investigation remains active with detectives seeking tips.