A 63-year-old man was arrested in connection with a Santa Ana hit-and-run that left a man dead on the road, police announced Monday.
According to the Santa Ana Police Department, the fatal collision happened just before 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, in the area of Harbor Boulevard and Hazard Avenue.
Officers responded to calls of a traffic collision and arrived to find an unresponsive man, later identified as David Westman, 46, of Santa Ana, lying in the southbound traffic lanes of Harbor Boulevard. Paramedics with the Orange County Fire Authority arrived and pronounced Westman dead at the scene.
The preliminary investigation details that Westman was walking westbound through the traffic lanes on Harbor Boulevard when he was struck by a vehicle traveling southbound. The driver of the suspect vehicle then fled the scene before police arrived.
“The Santa Ana Police Department’s Collision Investigation Unit (CIU) responded to investigate the incident,” SAPD says in a release.
After an undisclosed amount of time following leads, detectives tracked down the suspect and his vehicle in the city of Orange.
“With the assistance of patrol officers, the driver, 63-year-old Miguel Ocampo of Tustin, was arrested and booked into the Santa Ana Jail for felony hit-and-run,” SAPD continues. “CIU is continuing to investigate this incident.”
Anyone with information about the collision is asked to contact Detective Corporal M. Pardo at 714-245-8208 or the Santa Ana Police Department’s Traffic Division at 714-245-8200.
