Lufkin police report the driver in the early Sunday morning auto-pedestrian fatality crash turned himself in Wednesday.
He is identified as Roberto Carlos Guerrero, 32, of Lufkin.
The Lufkin Police Department reports being contacted by Guerrero’s attorney earlier this week. The attorney identified Guerrero as the suspect and said he would turn himself in at the Angelina County Jail once police obtained a warrant for his arrest.
Guerrero was southbound on Timberland Drive around 1:30 a.m. Sunday in a Chevy Impala when he hit 53-year-old Gabriel Garcia. Garcia was crossing Timberland Drive on foot at the time of the accident.
Garcia was taken by ambulance to a local hospital and pronounced dead at 1:50 a.m.
Guerrero is charged with accident involving injury or death.
The incident remains under investigation.
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