A judge demanded that an 18-year-old man is to be put on trial for a hit-and-run accident which occurred on July 9. The hit-and-run accident in Encanto resulted in the death of a young boy. 

Samuel Metu faces a charge for driving over the boy, Jameson Darapheth, in the middle of Madrone Avenue near Woodman Street. The child had ran out into the middle of the street where he was hit by the car with Metu in the driver’s seat. 

Metu was driving behind his mother down the street, and and after he struck the boy he just kept on driving without pulling over. He stopped at a gas station in the area. He stayed at the gas station and then decided to regress back to the location and worked alongside police, as stated in his testimony at a preliminary hearing in San Diego Superior Court.

Metu’s lawyer, Jeremiah Sullivan, reported in the middle of the hearing that the defendant was distracted and took his eyes off the road for a moment to look at another child when the young boy ran into the road. 

Sullivan requested that the Judge John Einhorn minimize the charges down to a misdemeanor, stating that the boy’s death was solely an unintentional accident. The judge denied the request but was in agreement with the portion that Metu did not mean to hurt the boy.

A 25-year-old man from San Diego was arrested after police report that he acted in a violent and aggressive way after he found out that his wedded girlfriend was not going to see him anymore and going back to her husband.

James Meadows bit the 27-year-old woman on her forearm and tried to run over her husband in a vehicle. The husband was expected to recover, reported San Diego police Sgt. Ray Battrick.

Police reported that the biting occurred when Meadows met up with the woman around 12:30 p.m. Saturday so she could give him back his CDs. The two met in an alley off 33rd Street between University and Lincoln avenues. Right after their meeting, the woman called him and asked him to return because she for to give him back his cell phone, and needed to eliminate him from her life.

The woman’s husband left a residential neighborhood and stepped onto the sidewalk on 33rd Street with the cell phone. Meadows pulled up alongside the man in His Lexus and struck the 25-year-old husband, who received a broken nose and other various wounds, Battrick stated.

Meadows drove away, but was later caught by sheriff’s deputies at the Encinitas train station and was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon.

The San Diego Police Department’s Domestic Violence Unit is currently handling the case.

Police are searching for the driver who hit a 78-year-old pedestrian in the Midway District Monday night and then took off without stopping.

The man was crossing Rosecrans Street near Caubey Street a little after 6 p.m. when he was hit by a white Toyota Tundra traveling west, San Diego police reported.

The man received serious head wounds, but is expected to survive, police stated. No more information was available about the hit-and-run.

 A 26-year-old man was critically hurt on Thursday when he was hit by a car pulling out from a parking lot of a restaurant. Some customers got into an argument and the driver went speeding off, police reported. 

The victim was hit by a Camaro on its way out of the Agave Grill parking lot located on H Street near Broadway around 2 a.m., stated police Lt. William Reber. The driver continued driving afterwards. 

The man who was struck by the car thought he wasn’t injured and he was transported home by a couple buddies, but then realized he was not feeling so well and was transported to the hospital, where he is receiving medical aide for a major brain hemorrhage, Reber stated. 

Police did not receive a call regarding the crash until after the man was transported to the hospital at about 3 a.m.

Reber reported that a dispute started in the restaurant as it was closing down for the night and a group of customers exited into the parking lot. Police are working to find out whether the driver was a part of the fight before he drove away, Reber added.

Police are currently inspecting a supposed hit and run accident that took place on Friday night and resulted in the critical injury of one person involved. 

The accident took place at about 11 p.m., when a car hit a row of parked cars. One of the passengers suffered major head injury and another minor injuries. According to police, the driver took off running afterwards. 

The accident was on Rancho Bernardo Road near Bernardo Oaks Drive.

One of two males involved in a hit-and-run accident on Sunday night were found stabbed to death, police reported.

Officers were dispatched to the corner of  Lamont Street and Missouri Street around 8:50 p.m. to find out the details about the crash, stated San Diego police Officer Dino Delimitros. They were informed that two people within the car attempted to flee on foot, but one fell and was hurt in his attempt, Delimitros stated.

The person reported that he was stabbed, paramedics made certain that he was and he was transported to the hospital for medical aide, Delimitros said.

The driver of the car took off running.

Police are working to find out details regarding the events that led to the stabbing.

A pedestrian was critically injured Monday night after being plowed over by a sedan on Clairemont Drive between Iroquois Avenue and Burgener Boulevard, San Diego police reported.

The car struck the pedestrian and continued driving after. The accident was called in around 5:30 p.m. The vehicle is said to be somewhat new, compact, silver four-door sedan with damage to the left front area, police stated. 

At least one lane on northbound Clairemont Drive has blocked off while officers search out the situation.  

The unknown pedestrian was transported to a hospital.

The driver of a vehicle struck and killed other passengers in a collision at El Cajon Boulevard and 54th street early Sunday and abandoned the crash location afterwards, police reported. 

A total of three passengers were traveling in a 1997 Plymouth and headed west on El Cajon Boulevard just after 2 a.m., San Diego police stated.

The Plymouth made a turn in front of a Ford truck that was traveling opposite the truck and struck the side of the vehicle, police reported.  

Two of the passengers in the Plymouth were critically hurt and the third was killed. The driver, said to be a Latina in her 20s or 30s, took off running after the collision. 

The driver of the truck sustained minor injuries in the accident, police stated.

A 43-year-old woman was seriously injured in both her leg and face just before midnight on Saturday when she stepped in front of an oncoming vehicle heading west on Ocean View Boulevard in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, police reported.

The driver hit the woman and took off in a black Nissan Altima with tinted back windows. A portion of the left side mirror was broken off the car.

A pedestrian who was hit by a driver on Friday night and killed in the incident was said to be Ventura Ortiz Madragal, 79, a resident of Chula Vista, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office. 

Ortiz was walking across Highland Avenue at Sixth Street in National City in the crosswalk around 7:30 p.m. when he was hit by a driver in a sport utility car. The driver just kept driving after hitting the pedestrian. 

Ortiz was killed at the time of impact.