The Oakland Police Department had arrested a suspect in the hit-and-run crash that killed a woman on June 16.
Santu Maya, 73, of Oakland, was walking with her daughter when she was fatally hit by a car at Foothill Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue.
Witnesses said the car may have been street racing, but police did not mention racing when announcing the arrest.
“He didn’t stop. He ran away,” Maya’s daughter Sanjoo Verma said. “And I heard the noise ‘boom,’ and I turned around and I saw her body and I tried to hold my mom. I told her, ‘Mommy, mommy, don’t worry. I’m here.’ And she just looked at me and then she was gone.”
