A woman has been arrested in the hit-and-run death of a 22-year-old bicyclist struck by a Porsche SUV in South Los Angeles in April, police said Thursday.
Frederick Richon Frazier was struck by a white Porsche Cayenne about 12:45 p.m. on April 10 at Manchester and Normandie avenues and died at a hospital. The Cayenne was being driven east on Manchester Avenue when the collision occurred.
At a news conference Thursday afternoon, police said they arrested 23-year-old Mariah Banks and recovered the Porsche, involved in the crash, which they said had been painted black.
A $50,000 reward had been offered in the case, and Frazier’s mother, Beverly Owens, had made emotional pleas for help finding the person who killed her son.
“This is somebody’s boyfriend. This is somebody’s cousin,” Owens said. “… Somebody knows this dude and you are (harboring) and keeping your eye on a murderer. Whoever goes (and) fixes this dude’s car, you’re fixing the car (of) somebody that just killed somebody. He’s got blood on his car, he got blood on his hands.
“All you had to do is stop and stay with him. It was an accident. But now you’re a killer, you’re a murderer.”
About 1 p.m. on the day following the fatal crash, a hit-and-run car struck and injured a man at a vigil that was being held for Frazier at the site where he was fatally injured. Some rocks and bottles were thrown toward responding officers and a patrol vehicle, but no officers were injured and no arrests were made.
Police swarmed and cleared the intersection, but not before a department SUV had its rear window smashed. The SUV’s tires had been flattened by the time it was towed from the scene.
The suspect and vehicle in that second hit-and-run are also in custody, police said.