A California man is awaiting extradition to Utah after being arrested for allegedly leaving the scene of a fatal Taylorsville crash more than two years ago.
U.S. marshals arrested 26-year-old Tyler Mackenzie Hurt in Redding, Calif., on Tuesday, a news release from the Unified Police Department said. He was booked into a jail in Shasta County on a $50,000 warrant.
On Nov. 22, 2015, about 2:35 p.m., 19-year-old Edgar Osvaldo Frayre-Rodriguez was riding a motorcycle in Kearns with two other motorcyclists. The group exited a gas station at 4710 South, attempting to turn left across northbound traffic to go south on 4015 West.
Frayre-Rodriguez swung wide and wobbled before Hurt’s Jeep struck him, the release said. Frayre-Rodriguez was pronounced dead at the scene.
Hurt’s Jeep was found abandoned at another gas station about three miles from the scene.
Hurt continued to evade police until his arrest this week, the release said.
Unified police have said that the crash likely was the fault of Frayre-Rodriguez, who did not appear to be fully in control of the motorcycle as he pulled into oncoming traffic, according to witnesses.
While detectives believe Hurt was uninsured and driving on an invalid license at the time, he likely would have only received citations for those offenses — not the fatal crash — had he not fled.
Instead, Hurt was charged in 3rd District Court with one count of third-degree felony failure to stop at a serious injury accident, which is punishable by up to five years in prison.
The day after the crash, investigators were able to ping Hurt’s cellphone and determine he was in Nevada, but the phone went dead shortly thereafter, police have said. In June of 2016, police got a tip that Hurt had applied for work in California, and listed his address as being in Redding, charges state.
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