Florida Highway Patrol confirmed the suspected driver’s name in a deadly hit and run is Edwin Rumaldo Almendares Amaya.
Jail logs show that driver is being held on charges of vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of a crash without rendering aid and operating a vehicle without a driver’s license, causing death or serious bodily injury.Video from FHP shows the moment two motorcycles were slowing down on Beach Boulevard before a red light.That driver left the scene, but on Friday morning FHP announced they found the car and arrested the driver.
“He was a really, really good young man, very nice, very calm, he really didn’t deserve this,” Zachary Kuhn, a local motorcyclist, said. The family identified 28-year-old Lester Bagaligog as the motorcyclist killed in this crash. He went by the name Nico,Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter“We’re going to try and do better as bikers to be more safe, and if you all as car drivers of cars, trucks anything else of an automobile, can just look out for us a little bit more,” Steven Fair, a local motorcyclist, said.
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