May 17(?) 2024

The driver has since been indicted my MCAO on 2nd degree murder.

This has it all: domestic violence, DUI, driving on a suspended license, hit-and-run w/fatality, ramming police vehicles (which should amount to aggravated assault), and ultimately murdering a bicyclist while fleeing.

Though i would expect prosecution to overlook (as they always do) the hit-and-run because, well, hit-and-run is routinely overlooked — by which i mean that by statute, and sentence for it must run consecutively (and not concurrently) to any other crime charged, so they pretty much always just give probation for hit-and run…

Driver on suspended license hits and kills cyclist in Phoenix

Phoenix police reported that 33-year-old Jamarr Dwayne Young was charged with second-degree murder after hitting and killing a cyclist Thursday night while attempting to flee from police during a domestic violence incident.

At about 8 p.m., police responded to reports of domestic violence at a home near 16th Street and Southern Avenue, where Phoenix police found Young at the scene. Police described him as confrontational from the beginning of the encounter.

Young reportedly ignored police commands and was seen standing behind a vehicle, acting as if he was concealing something, according to court documents.

According to police, non-lethal tactics to arrest Young were deployed but he later entered a vehicle, using it to ram a police vehicle and flee northbound on 16th Street.

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Young was proceeding north when he hit a cyclist headed east on Lynne Street.

Phoenix Firefighters arrived and rendered first aid to the cyclist who was pronounced dead on location, according to court documents.

Young engaged in a dangerous pursuit
Police said Young did not stop when he hit the cyclist and ignored attempts to pull him over.

Phoenix police Sgt. Rob Scherer said Young’s driving “became so erratic that the pursuit was called off.”

Young crashed his vehicle in an empty construction lot in Tempe and attempted to flee on foot before police arrested him.

Police said that Young exhibited symptoms of alcohol intoxication.

Young previously had his license revoked, then suspended in 2015 for a hit-and-run on a parked car

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