Lawyer says suspect in fatal hit-and-run ‘didn’t see a body or anything’

An lawyer for a Las Vegas doughnut transportation operator arrested successful a fatal crash aboriginal Tuesday said the antheral had nary thought the container motortruck helium was driving had struck and killed a pedestrian.

Police arrested Jeffrey Dungo, 34, of Henderson, connected a felony complaint of failing to halt astatine the country of an mishap successful the 4:04 a.m. clang connected East Charleston Boulevard astatine South Phyllis Street.

An apprehension study indicates that Dungo was delivering Krispy Kreme doughnuts erstwhile his achromatic container motortruck struck Arturo Gomez, 44, connected Charleston. The study states that Gomez, who died astatine the scene, had walked into the thoroughfare “where nary marked oregon unmarked crosswalks were located.”

Police said they obtained surveillance video from the country showing Dungo stopping the container motortruck a region distant from the clang scene. He got retired and looked astatine the truck, past got backmost successful the truck, did a U-turn and drove off.

The truck’s reflector and beforehand headlight lodging were damaged successful the crash. Police said Dungo told a supervisor helium thought helium had deed a ample operation cone.

Police wrote successful the study that they judge Dungo knew helium had struck a pedestrian.

Dungo’s attorney, Marc Saggese, said Thursday greeting that his lawsuit is innocent. Dungo, helium said, had nary thought the motortruck had struck a person.

“He did everything helium could bash to spot what happened,” Saggese said. “He didn’t spot a assemblage oregon anything.”

Saggese said his lawsuit is simply a hard-working begetter of six who works 2 jobs, and that his actions that greeting “are not a crime.”

“It is unfortunate he’s adjacent been charged,” the lawyer said. “I look guardant to making this close connected his behalf.”

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