"The suspect was driving a black 2021 Ram pickup truck eastbound on Santa Clara Street when he hit a woman riding an electric scooter northbound in the east crosswalk, Hernandez said. The woman was taken to an area hospital, where she died of her injuries. The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office identified her as Monica Violete Ibarra, 52, of San Francisco. The death was the 24th traffic fatality of the year on city streets."
"The driver did not stop at the scene, Hernandez said, adding that officers later found the truck unoccupied. The truck was determined to be an unreported stolen vehicle. Detectives, with the assistance of patrol officers, identified the suspect as Justin Perez and obtained warrants for his arrest and to search his residence, Hernandez said. On Wednesday, he was taken into custody in San Jose and booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on charges related to hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter."
The collision occurred around 8 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Santa Clara and Cahill streets near the SAP Center. A black 2021 Ram pickup truck traveling eastbound struck a 52-year-old woman, Monica Violete Ibarra of San Francisco, who was riding an electric scooter northbound in the east crosswalk. Ibarra was taken to a hospital and died of her injuries. The driver did not stop and the truck was later found unoccupied; investigators determined the vehicle had been reported stolen. Detectives identified 33-year-old Justin Perez as the suspect, obtained arrest and search warrants, and booked him into jail on hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter charges with $530,000 bail. Tips can be reported to SJPD Traffic Investigations or Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers.
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