BREAKING UPDATE: Police have arrested a woman accused of striking and killing a man and injuring three others in a hit-and-run rampage in Philadelphia a day after Christmas last year.
Police have arrested a woman accused of striking and killing a man and injuring three others in aOn Wednesday, police identified Neera Nicolas-Hudson, 32, as the hit-and-run driver and an arrest warrant was issued for her. She was taken into custody on Thursday and is charged with murder, homicide by vehicle and other related offenses.
On December 26, 2022, around 8 p.m., Hudson was driving a 2005 Ford Mustang in the parking lot of Rivers Casino along the 100 block of North Delaware Avenue when she crashed into a 51-year-old man on a grey electric scooter, knocking him to the pavement and shattering his leg, police said. The man was taken to the hospital where he was placed in stable condition.
Nicolas-Hudson continued driving recklessly near the casino's valet area, striking three other vehicles, including a 2022 Toyota Camry driven by a 48-year-old woman who suffered a minor injury, according to police.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters. After fleeing the scene on Delaware Avenue, Nicolas-Hudson was later seen by witnesses weaving in-and-out of traffic at a high rate of speed along North Broad Street, where she struck a 53-year-old man on a bicycle near the intersection with Spring Garden Street, according to investigators. That man was taken to a hospital and placed in stable condition as well.
Nicolas-Hudson then fled the scene once again and continued onto the corner of Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue where she struck 22-year-old Roland Darrel White who was walking in the area, police said. White was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:36 p.m. that night.
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