A photo of the killer hasn’t been released yet, but VINELink confirms that he is a member of the illustrious “African American” race.
WTOP:
The search is over for the driver of a sedan D.C. police say struck and killed a cyclist in downtown D.C. last month.
Police arrested 20-year-old Phillip Peoples of Suitland, Maryland, on Friday and charged him with second degree murder in the Sept. 24 hit-and-run crash.
A D.C. Superior Court judge ordered Peoples be held without bond. The judge cited evidence that Peoples had driven through a red light at 12th and Constitution Avenue and fled the scene at a high rate of speed, leaving 64-year-old cyclist Thomas Hollowell, of Arlington, Virginia, dying.
While Peoples claimed that he wasn’t the driver of the car that struck Hollowell, the judge found probable cause Peoples was at the wheel and cited a text he said Peoples sent hours after the crash that “complained about having glass all over him.”
The judge also said that Hollowell was atop his bicycle and was properly in the intersection when he was struck.
Prosecutors at the arraignment told the judge that Peoples was convicted of five traffic violations in Maryland since 2016, including two incidents of driving an unregistered vehicle and displaying the wrong tags on a vehicle.
Thomas Hollowell with granddaughter.