Milwaukee Fatal Hit-and-Run accident on the south side of the city; Man accused

Milwaukee – – A 41-year-old Milwaukee man will be charged with a death on Saturday, May 10, in connection with an accident on the south side of the city. The accused is Raul Herrera.

Hit-and-run crash

What we know:

According to the criminal complaint, the Milwaukee police received several 911 calls in relation to a pedestrian on Saturday, May 10, at 9:45 p.m. A caller reported that the striking car was no longer on site. Another caller “reported that she was in the striking car and that the striking car would not stop the striking car, so she had to jump out of the striking car,” the complaint said.

When the officials arrived at the scene, they found Roberto Deleon in the middle of p. 35th Street. Milwaukee firefighters provided Deleon first aid, but he was passed away at the crime scene.

Witness account

What you say:

The investigators later spoke to the woman who jumped out of the striking vehicle. She identified the accused as Raul Herrera. The woman noticed that, the defendant and a third person went to a bar in the E. North Avenue, had a few drinks during dinner and at around 8.45 p.m. later in a deli on Farwell, in which the “defendant bought a bottle of vodka and some beer, and they drove to a car body before traveling to the south”. The woman stated that Herrera drove all the time.

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At some point the woman found that “the accused drove very quickly” and ruthless “, the complaint said. When she spoke to the problem with Herrera, he said: “Stop the flap (explosive),” says the complaint. Then the woman in p. 35th Street told the police that she looked at her phone when “she heard the accused scream:” Oh (Expletive)! “And then the windshield of the car hit something,” it says in the complaint. The woman told the police that she knew that the accused had met a person.

When the woman told the defendant that he had to stop because he met a person, the “accused did not seem to have any intention,” the complaint said. The women shouted to let them out, and when the car slowed down, she “jumped out of the vehicle while it was moving”. The women then ran to the victim and called 911. She stayed with the victim until the emergency staff arrived.

The officials later searched for the accused. They went to an address in West Allis and saw no car parked on the street. But they noticed a 2003 Ford Mustang in a parking lot on which “was a huge hole in the driver's side of the windshield,” the complaint said.

The officials saw how the accused went away from the driver's head door of the car. An officer saw that the defendant dropped a beer can and “brought an open modelo beer case with it. (The official) also found that the accused was covered with glass dust and shards and had small injuries on his right hand,” the complaint said. When the officer touched the motor hood of the car, it was “very hot that the vehicle had just been driven”.

The investigators searched the Ford Mustang and saw “part of the windshield glass on the drost floor of the driver with the apparently human hair”, the complaint said. There were also red spots on the roof and on the original cover “, which” seem to be blood “.

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The police also spoke to the third person in the vehicle at the time of the crash. He said the official “the accused was afraid and didn't want to go to prison,” the complaint said. This person also said “the defendant Trank Modelo when he drove the Mustang and smoked Marijuana before the accident,” says the complaint.

What's next:

Herrera was to appear in court in the court of the Milwaukee district on Friday, May 16.

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