LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A woman called her pastor before turning herself in to police for a deadly hit-and-run crash, police said in documents 8 News Now obtained Wednesday.
Roxxanne Barela, 19, of Hemet, California, faces a charge of duty to stop at the scene of an accident involving death, records said.
The fatal hit-and-run crash on Flamingo Road near Palos Verdes Street happened Monday, May 5, around 3:20 a.m., police said.
Video from a passing Tesla, which recorded the incident, showed a pedestrian entering into the path of another car, which then struck her, documents said. Investigators also found the front of the car’s license plate at the collision scene, they said.
Through license-plate-reading technology, officers located the car at a nearby apartment complex.
Around 1 p.m., nearly eight hours after the crash, Barela turned herself in at a Metro police substation, officers said.
Speaking about the victim, Barela told police “all she could see was her face and black clothing” before striking her, documents said.
“She left the collision scene because she was scared and drove to her friend’s apartment,” police said. “She did not tell anyone what happened until later in the day when she called her pastor to ask her for a ride to the police station to turn herself in.”
It was not clear from court documents if Barela told her pastor the circumstances about why she needed to go to police.
Barela was due to appear in court on Thursday. A judge previously set bail at $150,000. Barela remained in custody on Wednesday.
The victim’s identity was not available on Wednesday.
