Update: Bellevue resident Lindsay Hill has been identified as the victim of the crash. She reportedly leaves behind two sons.
Her fiance, Robert T. Jackson, has been identified as the driver of the vehicle and appeared in King County Superior Court on Nov. 17.
His bail was set at $2 million, and police note that if convicted, this would be Jackson’s third strike after two previous convictions for robbery and assault.
Police arrested a Bellevue man for vehicular homicide and a hit-and-run Nov. 12 after witnesses reported seeing him, covered in blood, near the scene of a car crash that killed a Bellevue woman the night before.
Officers received a call around 11:30 p.m. Nov. 11 alerting them to a car crash at the intersection of 119th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 60th Street.
Upon arrival, they found a deceased 35-year-old female, who has been identified as a Bellevue resident, and a 1992 Lexus LS that was off the roadway and had struck a utility box, causing a power outage in the immediate neighborhood.
Police determined that the female victim was a passenger in the vehicle and had been ejected from her seat during the crash and subsequently ended up underneath the vehicle when it went off the roadway.
The driver of the Lexus had fled the scene by time officers arrived. K9 units were called to the scene, but were unable to locate the driver after an hour of searching.
Early the next morning, a resident called police and reported that they saw a man covered in blood walking around an apartment building near the scene of the crash.
Officers responded, located the individual, and confirmed that he was the driver of the involved vehicle. After a brief struggle involving three officers and a taser, police arrested the man and transported him to Overlake Hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the crash.
He is expected to be booked into the King County Jail for investigation of vehicular homicide and felony hit and run when he is released from the hospital. His name is not being released at this time as he has not yet been charged with any crime.
