A driver faces charges of murder and hate crime causing injury after Fairfield police said he ran over a man in a parking lot multiple times and took off from the scene.
FAIRFIELD – A driver faces charges of murder and hate crime causing injury after Fairfield police said he ran over a man in a parking lot multiple times and took off from the scene late Thursday morning.The incident happened around 11:30 a.m. when a man was walking through the Solano Town Center's northside parking lot when he was struck by another man driving a white Dodge pickup truck, police said.
'The truck was about to flee the scene, the way it was driving was as if he was driving fast then stopping then he just swings to the left and took off and it was odd to see that. That's when I noticed the body on the floor. That's when I thought, 'oh my god,' ' Alba Padilla said. Police said Tangitau was known to officers due to previous mental health calls. He was booked into the Solano County jail Thursday for murder.
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