CHARLOTTE — Police have arrested a woman accused of hitting and killing a teenage boy with her SUV in a hit-and-run early Sunday in northeast Charlotte.
Police responded shortly after 2:10 a.m. to reports of a collision just north of The Plaza on East W. T. Harris Boulevard.
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Police found Tamika Powell’s Chevy Equinox on Monday morning, parked in a gravel driveway on The Plaza, not far from the crash scene. Officers spotted damage to the vehicle that matched the profile released by detectives.
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, 13-year-old Kevin Gaviel Osorto was walking along the right shoulder of the southbound side of East W.T. Harris Boulevard when he was hit by a vehicle. Osorto was pronounced dead at the scene.
CMPD said debris from the collision helped detectives in identifying the suspect vehicle as a 2016 or 2017 Chevrolet Equinox.
CMPD arrested Powell, 35, and charged her with felony hit-and-run and involuntary manslaughter.
No other information has been released.
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